Further to a question I asked about a week ago, I am using XML::Simple to read a list of jobs in the following format 
<jobs>
<job name="XYZ.pl">
    <lang>Perl</lang>
    <runs>MON</runs>
    <parameters>
         <op SERVICE="REPORTS"/>
         <op USER="NEON"/>
    </parameters>
</job>
....
</jobs>

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There are about 530 of these jobs and XMLin($file) reads them into my hash just fine. I then find which are due today and write a script file to run todays jobs. This works just fine but we are moving to a .NET enviroment and I've been tasked with making an XML file of todays jobs. Fine I think just copy elements of the hash returned by XMLin($file) that I need and pass it to XMLout. But not as easy as that I get
Options must be name=>value pairs (odd number supplied) at perl_job_steps.pm line 87
Line 87 is
print OUT, XMLout(%{$jobs_tody})

Can anyone see an obvious answer, I'm not keen on the idea of changing the format of the XML as the rest of the code works well.

In reply to Problem with XMLout by Scarborough

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