XML::Simple seems to be taking some liberties with the code I feed it. Lets say I have xml like this that I put in a data structure my $config = XMLin($configfile); 
<config id="Installer">
    <pclist>
        <pc>MYPC1</pc>
        <pc>MYPC2</pc>
        <pc>MYPC3</pc>
    </pclist>
    <installfrom>C:\install</installfrom>
    <installto>
        <path>C:\Program Files</path>
        <subdir>directory</subdir>
    </installto>
    <logon>
        <domain>mydomain</domain>
        <user>someuser</user>
        <pass>blahblah</pass>
    </logon>
</config>

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Then I manipulate the structure by adding a pc name with and changing $config->{'installto'}->{'subdir'} = "otherdirectory"; I feed the altered hashref to XMLout($config); and the output is a little different. 
    
        <pclist>
        <pc>MYPC1</pc>
        <pc>MYPC2</pc>
        <pc>MYPC3</pc>
                <pc>MYPC4</pc>
    </pclist>
<logon pass="blahblah" domain="mydomain" user="someuser" />
  <installto path="C:\Program Files" subdir="otherdirectory" />
</opt>

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Somehow the pclist which refers to an array ref is fine. but the other nested tags get all fubared into single elements. Am I doing something wrong?

In reply to XML formatting problems with XML::Simple by thunders

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