That did it, thanks izut. Just to keep the record complete, here is the results: 
$VAR1 = {
  'campaign' => {
    'menuid' => '10118-2',
    'action' => '0',
    'phonenumbers' => {
      'phonenumber' => [
        {
          'number' => '4167781583',
          'prompts' => {
            'prompt' => [
              {
                'tts' => 'Hello, this is a test.',
                'promptid' => '2'
              }
            ]
          },
          'callid' => '1234abc'
        }
      ]
    }
  }
};

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<campaign action="0" menuid="10118-2">
  <phonenumbers>
    <phonenumber callid="1234abc" number="4167781583">
      <prompts>
        <prompt promptid="2" tts="Hello, this is a test." />
      </prompts>
    </phonenumber>
  </phonenumbers>
</campaign>

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Now I can also see hot to contrusct the HASH programatically, which si what I was attempting to do! Thanks again. jdtoronto

In reply to Re^4: XML::Simple is doing too much for me! Help please. by jdtoronto
in thread XML::Simple is doing too much for me! Help please. by jdtoronto

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