I think the problem is that there just isn't a 1:1 way to do this. This is why XML::Simple gets so hairy. Consider- 

<container>
  <thing foo="bar">baz</thing>
  <thing qux="oop" foo=""/>
  <thing/>
</container>

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What could that look like in a Perl structure? It would have to have objects mimicking DOM or something like "content/children" named placeholders.

So, I don't think this is easy to solve and it will probably be messy or just a different API to the DOM that's almost as complicated. I'd love to be proved wrong in this case. :) I'm an XML::LibXML user that also would love having straight mapping to Perl structures now and then.

In reply to Re: Reading structures from XML by Your Mother
in thread Reading structures from XML by John M. Dlugosz

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