XML now:

<document>
<position>
<departments>
<department name = "Nothing Selected"            />
<department name = "Pricing and Shopping Systems"    />
<department name = "Commercial"                /> 
<department name = "Operations Hardware"        />
<department name = "Corporate Marketing"        />
<department name = "Legal"                />
<department name = "Human Resources"            />
<department name = "Finance"                />
</departments>
</position>
</document>
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Perl now:

#!/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use lib 'C:/xampp/perl/site/lib';

use HTML::Template;

$ENV{XML_SIMPLE_PREFERRED_PARSER} = 'XML::Parser';
use XML::Simple;
use Data::Dumper;

my $template = HTML::Template->new(filename => 'file');
my $xml = XMLin('file', ForceArray => ['departments']);

my @department = @{ $xml->{position}->{departments} };

$template->param(DEPT => \@deptartment);
print $template->output;
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With strict on I get error: Global symbol "@department" requires explicit package name.

With strict off I get no errors, but nothing shows up on my template.

Using Dumper, my xml data looks right but displays something like

$VAR1=[
{department => {
'Finance' => {},
'Human Resources' => {}
}
]
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I'm thinking maybe the empty curly braces have something to do with why it's not actually displaying anything?

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