Actually, thinking about it - one of the fundamental problems here, is that the transformation between XML to has breaks down - because what you have in XML is:

• Nodes beneath the same parent with the same name
• Ordered named nodes
• Attributes - which logically would be a hash, but if they do, they contend with children

So with that in mind - you can craft XML that passes through XML::Simple painlessly by not doing any of those things:

<xml>
   <element>value</element>
   <another_element>a different value</another_element>
</xml>
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The irony is though - if your XML is that simple, then you didn't need XML::SImple either:

    my %stuff = $xml =~ m/(\w+)>([^<]+)</g;
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But as we know - it's a bad idea to parse XML with a regex - I think it's a bad idea to use XML::Simple for exactly the same reasons. (And you need to install it too)

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