Hi. You should use diagnostics to get a better explanation of warnings/errors (or you could just read perldoc perldiag).

Dumper outputs 

$VAR1 = {
          'name' => 'Coffee'
        };

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, which is obviously not what you expected $category to be. This is because my $cat = (<DATA>); read only 1 line from DATA (perldoc -f readline). You should try my $cat = join '', <DATA>;.

update: After making the above change I get Can't use string ("250") as an ARRAY ref while "strict refs" in use at foo.pl line 34. and line 34 is foreach my $content (@{$conditionning->{'content'}}).
Basically, $category->{'subcategory'}[0]{'product'}[0]{'conditionning'}[0]{'content'} is '250' (just like <conditionning unit="gr">250</conditionning>) and not an array.

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In reply to Re: Can't use string as an ARRAY by PodMaster
in thread Can't use string ("250") as an ARRAY ref while "strict by Maxim

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