I'm not sure why 'hard code the tags' is a hurdle to using modules, but Yes, even you can use CPAN may provide some options.

Generating simple XML with clean data (nothing that needs to be encoded as entities) ought be simple. For example (neglecting error checking and the XML header):

use strict;
use warnings;

print "<views>\n";

my $currId;

while (<DATA>) {
    my ($viewId, $viewName, $paramId, $paramName) = split;
    
    print "    </view>\n" if defined $currId && $currId ne $viewId;
    if (! defined $currId || $viewId ne $currId) {
        print qq(    <view id="$viewId" name="$viewName">\n);
        $currId = $viewId;
    }
    
    print qq(        <parameter id="$paramId">$paramName</parameter>\n
+);
    
}
print "    </view>\n</views>\n";

__DATA__
123456       all          123           Param 1
123456       all          124           Param 2
123457      detail        125           Param 3
123457      detail        126           Param 4
123457      detail        127           Param 5
123457      detail        128           Param 6

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Prints:

<views>
    <view id="123456" name="all">
        <parameter id="123">Param</parameter>
        <parameter id="124">Param</parameter>
    </view>
    <view id="123457" name="detail">
        <parameter id="125">Param</parameter>
        <parameter id="126">Param</parameter>
        <parameter id="127">Param</parameter>
        <parameter id="128">Param</parameter>
    </view>
</views>

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True laziness is hard work

In reply to Re: Creating simple XML from a DB query by GrandFather
in thread Creating simple XML from a DB query by joec_

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