Thanks for the help all :) The solution I ended using was writing an adaptor mod for CSS::Adaptor. 
package CSS::Adaptor::XML;

$VERSION = 1.00;

use CSS::Adaptor;
@ISA = ('CSS::Adaptor');

use strict;
use warnings;

sub output_rule {
    my ($self, $rule) = @_;
    
    #loop on each selector
    foreach ($rule->selectors(@_)){
        
        #grab the selector name
        my $selector = $rule->selectors;
        print "\t\<style name=\"".$selector."\"\>\n";
        
        #loop on each selector's properties
        foreach ($rule->properties(@_)){
            my @properties = $rule->properties;
            
            foreach my $line (@properties){
                my %properties = split (/[:;]\s+/,$line);
                print "\t\t\<property name=\"".$_."\"\>".$properties{$
+_}."\<\\property\>\n" for ( keys %properties  );
            }
        }
        #closing style
        print "\t\<\\style\>\n";
    }
}

1;

__END__

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Then I call it like so: 
my $css = CSS->new ({'adaptor' => 'CSS::Adaptor::XML'});
    $css->read_string($css-passed-as-string);
    print $css->output();
    $css->purge();

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It gives me the css file in an xml format, which is what I was looking for. I would always be grateful for any suggestions to make this code better, stronger, faster. Thanks again for your help monks :)

In reply to Re: regex question by Anonymous Monk
in thread regex question by Anonymous Monk

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