Hello Monks!

I need some help with something that has been driving me nuts for the last week, so here I come with my hat in hand, hoping some one can give me some help.
First off, here is a sample of the XML file I have to work with:

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?>
<foo>
   <ruleset>
      <description>bunch o' text here</description>

      <item name="A">
         <description>fake a</description>
         <text/>
      </item>

      <item name="B">
         <description>fake b</description>
         <radio>
            <option label="1" selected="t" value="1"/>
            <option label="2" value="2" />
         </radio>
      </item>

      <item name="C">
         <description>fake C</description>
         <replicant min="0" max="300">

            <item name="C1">
               <description>fake C1</description>
               <browser initial-dir="/htdocs/images/" />
            </item>
         </replicant>
      </item>

      <container name="D">

         <item name="A">
            <description>Fake D-A</description>
            <browser/>
         </item>

         <item name="B" rowcontinue="f">
            <description>fake d-b</description>
            <replicant min="1" max="15">
               <item name="B-1">
                  <text/>
               </item>
            </replicant>
         </item>
      </container>

   </ruleset>
</foo>

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What I need to do is parse over the XML file looking for anything that is not in a <replicant></replicant> block and return an in order array or hash of references that will point to those items.
Something like: foo->{item}->{A} or foo->{container}->{D}->{A}.
I don't care about any of the other attributes or what the value is ( that will be found later by something else ).
I've tried using XML::Parser but got no where and got very confused in the process and XML::Twig doesn't seem to be what I need. Any help from anyone would be greatly appreciated!!! Thanks.

In reply to XML Parsing help.... by dwhitney

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