Others have suggested using XSLT but I thought it might be useful to actually show you how - here is the stylesheet: 

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:transform xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
               version="1.0">
 
     <xsl:output method="xml" />
     <xsl:template match="/">
        <businesses>
           <xsl:apply-templates />
        </businesses>
     </xsl:template>
 
     <xsl:template match="entity">
        <block>
           <xsl:attribute name="name">
              <xsl:value-of select="@name" />
           </xsl:attribute>
           <xsl:attribute name="min">
              <xsl:value-of select="product/@min" />
           </xsl:attribute>
           <xsl:attribute name="max">
              <xsl:value-of select="product/@max" />
           </xsl:attribute>
           <xsl:copy-of select="description" />
           <xsl:copy-of select="product/*" />
        </block>
     </xsl:template>
     <xsl:template match="item">
        <xsl:copy-of select="." />
     </xsl:template>
</xsl:transform>

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And of course code in Perl, first using XML::XSLT: 
use XML::XSLT;
                                                                      
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my $xslt = XML::XSLT->new ('tr.xslt', warnings => 1);
                                                                      
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$xslt->transform ('source.xml');
print $xslt->toString;
                                                                      
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$xslt->dispose();

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Secondly using XML::LibXSLT: 
use XML::LibXSLT;
use XML::LibXML;
                                                                      
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my $parser = XML::LibXML->new();
my $xslt = XML::LibXSLT->new();
                                                                      
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my $source = $parser->parse_file('source.xml');
my $style_doc = $parser->parse_file('tr.xslt');
                                                                      
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my $stylesheet = $xslt->parse_stylesheet($style_doc);
                                                                      
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my $results = $stylesheet->transform($source);
                                                                      
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print $stylesheet->output_string($results);

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/J\

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