hello, I am trying to generate an XML document in the following form:

<ROOT>
    <Child1>
        <SubChild1>xxx</SubChild1>
        <SubChild2>xxx</SubChild2>
        <SubChild3>xxx</SubChild3>
    </Child1>
    <Child2>
        <SubChild1>xxx</SubChild1>
        <SubChild2>xxx</SubChild2>
        <SubChild3>xxx</SubChild3>
        <SubChild4>xxx</SubChild4>
        <SubChild>
            <SubSubChild1>xxx</SubSubChild1>
            <SubSubChild2>xxx</SubSubChild2>
            <SubSubChild3>xxx</SubSubChild3>
            <SubSubChild4>xxx</SubSubChild4>
            <SubSubChild5>xxx</SubSubChild5>
            <SubSubChild6>xxx</SubSubChild6>
        </SubChild>
        <SubChild5>xxx</SubChild5>
    </Child2>
</ROOT>
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I have done it just by reading my data in from a csv file, but I was wondering if there is a perl module that could help me do this. Also, the <Child2> section can be repeated depending on my data that I have passed in. So it could look like:

<ROOT>
    <Child1>
        <SubChild1>xxx</SubChild1>
        <SubChild2>xxx</SubChild2>
        <SubChild3>xxx</SubChild3>
    </Child1>
    <Child2>
        <SubChild1>xxx</SubChild1>
        <SubChild2>xxx</SubChild2>
        <SubChild3>xxx</SubChild3>
        <SubChild4>xxx</SubChild4>
        <SubChild>
            <SubSubChild1>xxx</SubSubChild1>
            <SubSubChild2>xxx</SubSubChild2>
            <SubSubChild3>xxx</SubSubChild3>
            <SubSubChild4>xxx</SubSubChild4>
            <SubSubChild5>xxx</SubSubChild5>
            <SubSubChild6>xxx</SubSubChild6>
        </SubChild>
        <SubChild5>xxx</SubChild5>
    </Child2>
        <Child3>
        <SubChild1>xxx</SubChild1>
        <SubChild2>xxx</SubChild2>
        <SubChild3>xxx</SubChild3>
        <SubChild4>xxx</SubChild4>
        <SubChild>
            <SubSubChild1>xxx</SubSubChild1>
            <SubSubChild2>xxx</SubSubChild2>
            <SubSubChild3>xxx</SubSubChild3>
            <SubSubChild4>xxx</SubSubChild4>
            <SubSubChild5>xxx</SubSubChild5>
            <SubSubChild6>xxx</SubSubChild6>
        </SubChild>
        <SubChild5>xxx</SubChild5>
    </Child3>
</ROOT>
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any help, or an example on how to use a perl module to do this would be great. I have been playing around with XML::DOM, but am not having lots of luck. thanks again

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