I am failing terribly to return a Hash of the Parsed XML document using twig - in order to use it in OTHER subs for performing several validation checks. The goal is to do abstraction and create re-usable blocks of code.

XML Block

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Accounts locale="en_US">
  <Account>
    <Id>abcd</Id>
    <OwnerLastName>asd</OwnerLastName>
    <OwnerFirstName>zxc</OwnerFirstName>
    <Locked>false</Locked>
    <Database>mail</Database>
    <Customer>mail</Customer>
    <CreationDate year="2011" month="8" month-name="fevrier" day-of-mo
+nth="19" hour-of-day="15" minute="23" day-name="dimanche"/>
    <LastLoginDate year="2015" month="04" month-name="avril" day-of-mo
+nth="22" hour-of-day="11" minute="13" day-name="macredi"/>
    <LoginsCount>10405</LoginsCount>
    <Locale>nl</Locale>
    <Country>NL</Country>
    <SubscriptionType>free</SubscriptionType>
    <ActiveSubscriptionType>free</ActiveSubscriptionType>
    <SubscriptionExpiration year="1980" month="1" month-name="janvier"
+ day-of-month="1" hour-of-day="0" minute="0" day-name="jeudi"/>
    <SubscriptionMonthlyFee>0</SubscriptionMonthlyFee>
    <PaymentMode>Undefined</PaymentMode>
    <Provision>0</Provision>
    <InternalMail>asdf@asdf.com</InternalMail>
    <ExternalMail>fdsa@zxczxc.com</ExternalMail>
    <GroupMemberships>
      <Group>werkgroep X.Y.Z.</Group>
    </GroupMemberships>
    <SynchroCount>6</SynchroCount>
    <LastSynchroDate year="2003" month="12" month-name="decembre" day-
+of-month="5" hour-of-day="12" minute="48" day-name="mardi"/>
    <HasActiveSync>false</HasActiveSync>
    <Company/>
  </Account>
  <Account>
    <Id>mnbv</Id>
    <OwnerLastName>cvbb</OwnerLastName>
    <OwnerFirstName>bvcc</OwnerFirstName>
    <Locked>true</Locked>
    <Database>mail</Database>
    <Customer>mail</Customer>
    <CreationDate year="2012" month="10" month-name="octobre" day-of-m
+onth="10" hour-of-day="10" minute="18" day-name="jeudi"/>
    <LastLoginDate/>
    <LoginsCount>0</LoginsCount>
    <Locale>fr</Locale>
    <Country>BE</Country>
    <SubscriptionType>free</SubscriptionType>
    <ActiveSubscriptionType>free</ActiveSubscriptionType>
    <SubscriptionExpiration year="1970" month="1" month-name="janvier"
+ day-of-month="1" hour-of-day="1" minute="0" day-name="jeudi"/>
    <SubscriptionMonthlyFee>0</SubscriptionMonthlyFee>
    <PaymentMode>Undefined</PaymentMode>
    <Provision>0</Provision>
    <InternalMail/>
    <ExternalMail>qweqwe@qwe.com</ExternalMail>
    <GroupMemberships/>
    <SynchroCount>0</SynchroCount>
    <LastSynchroDate year="1970" month="1" month-name="janvier" day-of
+-month="1" hour-of-day="1" minute="0" day-name="jeudi"/>
    <HasActiveSync>false</HasActiveSync>
    <Company/>
  </Account>
</Accounts>

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Perl Block

my $file = shift || (print "NOTE: \tYou didn't provide the name of the
+ file to be checked.\n" and exit);
my $twig = XML::Twig -> new ( twig_roots => { 'Account' => \& parsing 
+} ); #'twig_roots' mode builds only the required sub-trees from the d
+ocument while ignoring everything outside that twig.
$twig -> parsefile ($file);

sub parsing {
    my ( $twig, $accounts ) = @_;
    my %hash = @_;
    my $ref = \%hash; #because was getting an error of Odd number of h
+ash elements
    return $ref;
    $twig -> purge;
}

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It gives a hash reference - which I'm unable to deference properly (even after doing thousands of attempts). Again - just need a single clean function (sub) for doing the Parsing and returning the hash of all elements ('Accounts' in this case) - to be used in other other function (valid_sub) for performing the validation checks. I'm literally stuck at this point - and will HIGHLY appreciate your HELP.

POSTED at StackOverflow as well - for the sole reason of having multiple answers in order to get the desired result.

In reply to Need an hash of the Parsed Document ! by Mr.Mick

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