Instead of
print FIL "<categoryName>\n";
you'd use
print FIL "<site>\n";

Instead of
print FIL "</pics>\n";
you'd use
print FIL "</site>\n";

Instead of
print FIL "<pic$t name=\"$nfile\"></pic$t>\n";
you'd use

use URI::Escape qw( uri_escape );

my $escaped_file = $nfile;

# Convert the file name to a URL.
$escaped_file = uri_escape($nfile);

# Escape the URL for use in an HTML attribute.
#uri_escape already removes & and ".
#$escaped_file =~ s/&/&amp;/g;    
#$escaped_file =~ s/"/&quot;/g;

print FIL "<item id=\"$t\" name=\"$escaped_file\" />\n";

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btw, it checks for .jpg in lowercase. You may want to replace
substr($filename, length($filename)-4, 4) eq ".jpg"
with
lc(substr($filename, length($filename)-4, 4)) eq ".jpg"
or the simpler
lc(substr($filename, -4)) eq ".jpg"
in case file is named SOMETHING.JPG.

Update: Added uri escaping.

In reply to Re: creating an xml file from perl by ikegami
in thread creating an xml file from perl by decerebrate

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