Note that you get the same error from this code. 

# the output from Dumper, s/\$VAR1/\$xml_ref/
$xml_ref ={
          'QuestionList' => [
                              {
                                'Question' => {
                                                'Text' => 'Are dingos 
+your friend?',
                                                'Id' => '3',
                                                'Answer' => 'Satisfact
+ory'
                                              }
                              },
                              {
                                'Question' => {
                                                'Text' => 'Should this
+ run out of memory?',
                                                'Id' => '11',
                                                'Answer' => 'No'
                                              }
                              }
                            ]
        };

print $xml_ref->{'QuestionList'}->{'Question'}->[0]->{'Answer'};

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Note also, as I just have, that what you really want to do is 

print $xml_ref->{'QuestionList'}->[0]->{'Question'}->{'Answer'};

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I think that may solve your problem. Why Perl runs out of memory when you give it misleading deep nested references is another matter.

dave hj~

In reply to Re: XML Parsing Out of Memory error by dash2
in thread XML Parsing Out of Memory error by JackHammer

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