This little script uses DBD::CSV and DBIx::XML_RDB to convert a CSV file into an XML file. Since you have know your column names ahead of time, i bypassed using Getopt::Std to query for the directory and CSV file to read from. Instead, all three items are defined at the top of the script. Your milleage may and probably will vary.

Notes: 

use DBI;
use File::Basename;

use strict;

my $dir   = '.';
my $file  = 'foo.csv';
my $table = (fileparse($file,'.csv'))[0];
my $cols  = [qw(name id date)];
my $sep   = ',';

my $dbh = DBI->connect(
   "DBI:CSV:f_dir=$dir;csv_eol=\n;csv_sep_char=$sep;",
   {RaiseError=>1},
);

$dbh->{csv_tables}->{$table} = { 
   file      => $file,
   col_names => $cols,
};

my $xml = My::DBIx::XML_RDB->new($dbh);
$xml->DoSql("select * from $table");
print $xml->GetData();


package My::DBIx::XML_RDB;
use base qw(DBIx::XML_RDB);

sub Initialise {
   my ($self,$dbh) = @_;

   $self->{dbh} = $dbh;
   $self->{output} = qq|<?xml version="1.0"?>\n<DBI>\n|;

   return 1;
}

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And here is a sample CSV file you can use with the supplied file, directory, and column names. Save this as foo.csv in the same directory as the script: 
string,10,07/13/1970
foo,999999,04/01/1940
bar,0,12/31/1999

jeffa

L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L--
-R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR
B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B--
H---H---H---H---H---H---
(the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)

In reply to CSV to XML (the quick and dirty way) by jeffa

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