Hi there, I am fairly new to Perl and I've been assigned to do something very complex in a short period of time. A small part of my job is to write a Perl script that automatically adds a new release tab to the Hudson Build server each time we branch to a new release. Hudson uses the following config xml file and generates a GUI with fancy View tabs that list all our release projects. Can some one please help me write a Perl script that is able to add xml code to the following xml file by feeding it just the new release name(Tab Names in the xml file), and the script adds similar Tabs to Hudson that will contain all projects (zip and zip1) listed under the Tab 1, 2 and 3 with new names accordingly. (ex: Tab 4, 5 and 6). In addition, I also need to be able to remove these View Tabs when necessary. If anyone can help me get started on this, it will be much appreciated. Do I use "use XML::DOM;"? Thanks, Tony. 
 <views>
    <listView>
      <owner reference="../../.."/>
      <jobNames class="tree-set">
        <comparator class="hudson.util.CaseInsensitiveComparator"/>
        <string>zip</string>
      </jobNames>
      <name>Tab1</name>
    </listView>
    <listView>
      <owner reference="../../.."/>
      <jobNames class="tree-set">
        <comparator class="hudson.util.CaseInsensitiveComparator" refe
+rence="../../../listView/jobNames/comparator"/>
        <string>zip1</string>
      </jobNames>
      <name>Tab2</name>
    </listView>
    <listView>
      <owner reference="../../.."/>
      <jobNames class="tree-set">
        <comparator class="hudson.util.CaseInsensitiveComparator" refe
+rence="../../../listView/jobNames/comparator"/>
        <string>zip</string>
        <string>zip1</string>
      </jobNames>
      <name>Tab3</name>
    </listView>
  </views>
  <slaveAgentPort>0</slaveAgentPort>
  <secretKey>6afc684a9a6f353335bd0f68beccc999f3adc88cac</secretKey>
</hudson>

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