The proper format might even be closer to:

<settings>
    <your_name>Your Name</your_name>
    <his_name>His Name</his_name>
    <number>324324324</number>
</settings>

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XML markup should be descriptive. 1, 2 and 3, whether in tag names or as the only piece of information in the node tags are quite useless. And Perl will be just as happy to go through the keys of a hash than to the indexes in an array (BTW this comment is not directed to you merlyn ;--)

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In reply to Re: &bull;Re: XML::Parser and Invalid XML by mirod
in thread XML::Parser and Invalid XML by Flame

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