There is a MySQL XML dump that contains data in the following format: 
<row>
<field name='column1'>Homer</field>
<field name='column2'>Homer Simpson</field>
<field name='column3'>Nuclear Systems Operation</field>
</row>

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I would like to key in on the 'field name' or convert the above to the following format: 
<row>
<column1>Homer</column1>
<column2>Homer Simpson</column2>
<column3>Nuclear Systems Operation</column3>
</row>

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This is the code I currently have. It will work for the second 'converted' version of the XML output.: 
    my $xml = new XML::Simple (KeyAttr=>'row');
    my $data = $xml->XMLin("Employee.xml");
    foreach my $e (@{$data->{row}})
    {
        print "cn: ", $e->{column1}, "\n";
        print "sn: ", $e->{column2}, "\n"; 
        print "Department: ", $e->{column3}, "\n"; 
        print "\n";
     }

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Ideally, I would like to skip the conversion process and just be able to key in on the 'field name' entry. If this is not possible, How would I first convert the file replace 'field name='column1' with just 'column1' and '/field' with '/column1'? I've tried cheating with a system command & perl one-liner within my script to do a search and replace. It didn't work as expected and was pretty fugly.

In reply to Change MySQL 5.0 XML output to 4.0 output by rycher

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