Hi, I recently started to work with small XML files used as config or save files (FreeMind, svn, dia, ...). I normally had a first look on the XML structure to decide what to do with it. Because I like to think in Perl not XML I used a one liner to print the XML structure as Perl structure using XML::Simple and Data::Dumper.
I finally wrote today this small script so that I don't have to remember and type the one-liner (quite a long line!) repeatably.
I like of course share this with my fellow monks even if it's just a very simple script (NO! I don't only post it here so I can find it again if I need it one my many other computers!). 
#!/usr/bin/perl
# dumpxml: Simply dumps an XML as a Perl structure
use strict;
use warnings;
use XML::Simple;
use Data::Dumper;

if (!@ARGV or grep /^-h$/, @ARGV ) {
    print STDERR "Usage: dumpxml <XML FILE> [ '<XML::Simple options>' 
+]\n";
    print STDERR "Example: dumpxml file.xml 'ForceArray => 1, KeyAttr 
+=> \"name\"'\n";
    exit 0;
}

my $file    = shift or die;
my @options = eval "@ARGV";
my $xml     = XMLin( $file, @options );

print Data::Dumper->Dump( [$xml], ["FILE{'$file'}"] );

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