Hello all, Looking for help adding nested elements to my data structure so that XML::Simple will output properly. Here are the significant portions of my code:
use XML::Simple;
my $xs = XML::Simple->new( ForceArray => 1, KeepRoot => 1, NoAttr => 1
+ );
my $data = { 'Things' => { 'Thing' => [] } };

...

push @{ $data->{Things}->{Thing} },
    {
    'Item' => $var1,
    'Number' => $var2,
    'Details' => {
            'Detail' => {
                    'Color' => $var3
                        }
             }
    };

...

my $xml = $xs->XMLout($data);
print $xml;

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When I print the XML I get: 
<Things>
    <Thing>
        <Item>XXX</Item>
        <Number>9999</Number>
        <Details>
            <name>Detail</name>
            <Color>Blue</Color>
        </Details>
    </Thing>
</Things>

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What I'm looking for is: 
<Things>
    <Thing>
        <Item>XXX</Item>
        <Number>9999</Number>
        <Details>
            <Detail>
                <Color>Blue</Color>
            </Detail>
        </Details>
    </Thing>
</Things>

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This is probably a simple problem and I'm assuming that XML::Simple can't go that deep. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Rob

In reply to XML::Simple and Adding Nested Elements by Ozeroc

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