Sorry, I thought this would be enough, but I'll post my complete code now. The problem is not actually the XML
because with unique elements it does work.

<ROOT>

    <SUB CLASSNAME="SUB1">
        <Element1 Type="Type1">Type 1 value</Element1>
        <Element2 Type="Type2">Type 2 value</Element2>
    </SUB>

    <SUB CLASSNAME = "SUB2">
        <Element1 Type="Type1">Type 1 value</Element1>
        <Element2 Type="Type2">Type 2 value</Element2>
        <Element2 Type="Type3">Type 5 value</Element2>    
    </SUB>

    <SUB CLASSNAME = "SUB3">
        <Element1 Type="Star">content 1</Element1>
        <Element2 Type="Henry">Some stuff</Element2>        
    </SUB>

</ROOT>
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This fails on the third element of the second node: <element2>
This is the COMPLETE perl script:

#! /usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;
use Cwd;
use Win32::OLE;
use XML::Simple;

my $file = 'dataFile.xml';
my $xs1 = XML::Simple->new();
my $doc = $xs1->XMLin( $file, keyattr=>['CLASSNAME'], ForceContent=>1 
+);

my %subroutines = %{$doc->{SUB}};

my $application = Win32::OLE->new("Excel.Application");
my $workbook    = $application->Workbooks->Add();
my $worksheet   = $workbook->Worksheets(1);


my $rowCount = 2;
my $colCount = 2;
my $colspan = 1;

foreach my $this_routine ( sort keys %subroutines ) {
  
  my $element_count = scalar( keys  
  %{$subroutines{$this_routine}} 
);
  $worksheet->Cells($rowCount, $colCount)->{Value} = 
  $this_routine;
  $rowCount++;
  
  foreach my $this_type (sort keys %{$subroutines{$this_routine}} ) {

    if ( exists $subroutines{$this_routine}->
        {$this_type}->{Type}) 
        {    
    
            $worksheet->Cells($rowCount, 
    $colCount)->{Value} = $this_type;
            
        $colCount++;

    }

$rowCount--;

}
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Would be great if you guys found what is wrong. Deleting the element2 in the SUB2 will generate an excel file in your current directory.

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