XML::Simple may work great for simple stuff, and though your new requirement may still be simple, it seems like it won't take long for you to surpass that. Personally, I find XML::Twig simple enough for the simple stuff, and no more complex for the complex stuff... so I'd recommend going that way sooner rather than later.

That said, this doesn't appear to be valid XML: there is no close tag for 'report'. So it seems unfortunate that XML::Simple doesn't complain (it's not really XML anymore). Anyway, if I just close that tag immediately, I get:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use XML::Twig;

my $twig = XML::Twig->new();
$twig->parse(\*DATA);

for my $node ($twig->get_xpath('/root/node'))
{
    print "Machine: ", $node->att('mid'), "\n";
    my ($values) = $node->get_xpath('values');
    print "\tvalues: ", $values->text(), "\n";
    my ($time) = $node->get_xpath('time');
    print "\ttime: ", $time->text(), "\n";
}

__END__
<root>

 <report id="0" ip="1.1.1.1" />

   <node mid="machine1" name="Winxp">
     <values>1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6</values>
     <time>110, 120, 130, 140, 150, 160</time>
   </node>

   <node mid="machine2" name="Win2003">
     <values>1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6</values>
     <time>110, 120, 130, 140, 150, 160</time>
   </node>

</root>

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And that gives: 
Machine: machine1
        values: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
        time: 110, 120, 130, 140, 150, 160
Machine: machine2
        values: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
        time: 110, 120, 130, 140, 150, 160

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If you close the report after the last node, the $twig->get_xpath will have to change to /root/report/node, or you can just use //node which will work either way.

In reply to Re: Parsing XML file for more than 1 child element with attributes (XML::Twig) by Tanktalus
in thread Parsing XML file for more than 1 child element with attributes by Anonymous Monk

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