I've got a simple xml document ... 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<charge-type-control>
   <charge code="FRT" name="frtamt"/>
   <charge code="SV1" name="savamt"/>
   <charge code="SV2" name="savamt"/>
   <charge code="SV3" name="savamt"/>
   <charge code="SV4" name="savamt"/>
   <charge code="SV5" name="savamt"/>
</charge-type-control>

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that I would like to parse into the data structure ... 
{
   'SV1' => 'savamt',
   'SV5' => 'savamt',
   'SV2' => 'savamt',
   'FRT' => 'frtamt',
   'SV3' => 'savamt',
   'SV4' => 'savamt'
};

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However, the closest I've been able to get with XML::Simple is ... 
{
    'charge' => {
                'SV1' => {
                         'name' => 'savamt'
                       },
                'SV5' => {
                         'name' => 'savamt'
                       },
                'SV2' => {
                         'name' => 'savamt'
                       },
                'SV4' => {
                         'name' => 'savamt'
                       },
                'SV3' => {
                        'name' => 'savamt'
                       },
                'FRT' => {
                         'name' => 'frtamt'
                       }
              }
};

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using this XMLin line ... 
$ref = XMLin('charge-type-control.xml', KeyAttr => ['code']);

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the docs allude to using ValueAttr like... 
$ref = XMLin('charge-type-control.xml', KeyAttr => ['code'], ValueAttr
+ => ['name']);

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but the results are the same. So either it doesn't do what I think it does or what I want to do is impossible. Can I coerce XML::Simple to do exactly what I want or do I have to write my own transformer like... 

my %myref;
for my $key (keys %{$ref->{charge}}) {
   $myref{$key} = $ref->{charge}->{$key}->{name};
}

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to get exactly what I want?

In reply to XML::Simple help by mifflin

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