Monks - I am using a vendor supplied perl module to access an API on a piece of hardware - 
my $response = $s->invoke("disk-list-info");

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returns a hash reference - 
print $response;   
returns -  
NaElement=HASH(0x84b3408)

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The hash is an XML document, the Data::Dumper looks like this - (very truncated) 
print Dumper($response)
returns - 
$VAR1 = bless( {
                 'content' => '',
                 'name' => 'results',
                 'children' => [
                                 bless( {
                                          'content' => '',
                                          'name' => 'disk-details',
                                          'children' => [
                                                          bless( {
                                                                   'co
+ntent' => '',
                                                                   'na
+me' => 'disk-detail-info',
                                                                   'ch
+ildren' => [
                                                                      
+             bless( {
                                                                      
+                      'content' => '0b.29',
                                                                      
+                      'name' => 'name',
                                                                      
+                      'children' => [],
                                                                      
+                      'attrvals' => [],
                                                                      
+                      'attrkeys' => []
                                                                      
+                    }, 'NaElement' ),
                                                                      
+             bless( {
                                                                      
+                      'content' => '20000011:C6C99699:00000000:000000
+00:00000000:00000000:00000000:00000000:00000000:00000000',
                                                                      
+                      'name' => 'disk-uid',
                                                                      
+                      'children' => [],
                                                                      
+                      'attrvals' => [],
                                                                      
+                      'attrkeys' => []
                                                                      
+                    }, 'NaElement' ),
                                                                      
+             bless( {
                                                                      
+                      'content' => '13',
                                                                      
+                      'name' => 'bay',
........................

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I'd like to get this document "loaded" into XML::Simple or XML::Twig so I can access the data more easily. I have tried ; 
$xmldoc = XMLin($response); - This errors out with - 

read on filehandle failed: Can't locate object method "read" via packa
+ge "NaElement" at /usr/lib/perl5/XML/LibXML.pm line 531. at /usr/lib/
+perl5/XML/LibXML/SAX.pm line 64
 at /usr/share/perl5/XML/Simple.pm line 295

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I have tried a whole bunch of variations on that, including 
XMLin(\%response) - same error. \

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Any ideas? Thanks, C

In reply to Send a hash reference to XML::Simple? by CRCarl

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