Who said anything about records? Who said the datastructure is gonna be AoH? I would like to support any kind of datastructure. And be able to produce even more complex (read crazy) XML. I think you'd find this style getting quickly out of hand as soon as you attempted to support AoA,HoA,HoH,HoHoH,HoAoH, ... or as soon as you needed to produce things like 

<record id="1">
  <foo>Hello</foo>
  <bar>World</bar>
</record>

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OK, so you add a way to specify which "field" is gonna become an attribute of the record tag. Then you find out you sometimes need more. That sometimes the name of the field doesn't match the name of the attribute. ...

For the simpler task of converting AoH to (more or less) record based XML your solution is probably simpler. Whether easier to use I'm not so sure. The templates as I see them, let the user specify how does he/she want the result to look like and then mark what is to be repeated for the A and what for the H, where to put the key and where the value from the hash, specify the static tags or data, etc.

Thanks for the comment anyway of course, I actually think your module might be a nice little addition to CPAN. Or maybe it could be added to XML::Records or XML::RAX. As a means to go the other direction than what the modules were originally made for.

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