The problem is since they can choose their own data, it's entire possible to not have any unique columns on their own. Trying your example I <anon> element tags again. I am using XML::Simple to create the xml. 
        my @xml_array = ();
    while ( my $row = $sth->fetchrow_arrayref ) {
        push @xml_array, $row;
    }

    my $cgi = CGI->new;
    print $cgi->header('text/xml');
    print Dumper( \@xml_array );    
    my $testxml = XMLout( \@xml_array, NoAttr => 1, RootName => 'datas
+et', );
    print $testxml;

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In another section, I use XML::Generator, like this. Maybe somehow I can loop through so the right amount of columns are created in this hash, and it's generated on it's own. UNLESS it's possible to get the column names in the element tags using the above array solution, I just can't see it. :( 
$xml->cdr(
            $xml->Date($date_time),
            $xml->IngressTG($orig_gw),
            $xml->EgressTG($term_gw),
            $xml->Dialed($call_dtmf),
            $xml->DUR($duration),
            $xml->PDD($hold_time),
            $xml->ISDN($isdn),
            $xml->CallType($call_type),
            $xml->Link("URL")
          );

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In reply to Re^4: DBI hashref does not return data in order of query by hallikpapa
in thread DBI hashref does not return data in order of query by hallikpapa

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