XML::Twig is too flexible, and too verbose. But it's really quite cool once you get it working ... You didn't give your original hash structure, so I pretended what it was. 

use strict;
use XML::Twig;

my $hash = {
    name => 'bob',
    value1 => 'blah',
    value2 => 'blah2',
};

my $twig = XML::Twig->new(pretty_print => 'indented');

my $elt = create_element(newPhone => $hash);
$twig->set_root($elt);

$twig->print();


sub create_element
{
    my $gi   = shift;
    my $data = shift;

    my $t = XML::Twig::Elt->new($gi);

    if (ref $data)
    {
        while (my ($k,$v) = each(%$data))
        {
            create_element($k, $v)->paste(last_child => $t);
        }
    }
    else
    {
        $t->set_text($data);
    }

    $t;
}

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Saved as "x": 
$ perl x
<newPhone>
  <value1>blah</value1>
  <name>bob</name>
  <value2>blah2</value2>
</newPhone>

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Hope that helps.

In reply to Re: Outputting a hash as XML by Tanktalus
in thread Outputting a hash as XML by smeenz

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