Hi monks, I am having an XML like this sample.xml 
<cat>
<channel>CHANNEL123</channelName>
<name>CATEGORY123</name>
<shortName>TopCategory</shortName>
<description>This is TopCategory channel's Category</description>
<shortDescription>This is TopCategory channel's Category</shortDescrip
+tion>
<parentID>0</parentID>
<categoryTags>Vod;Download</categoryTags>
</cat>


<cat>
<channelName>Channel456</channelName>
<name>cat456</name>
<shortName>TopCategory</shortName>
<description>This is TopCategory channel's Category</description>
<shortDescription>This is TopCategory channel's Category</shortDescrip
+tion>
<parentID>0</parentID>
<categoryTags>Vod;Download</categoryTags>
</cat>


<cat>
<channelName>chann678</channelName>
<name>cat678</name>
<shortName>TopCategory</shortName>
<description>This is TopCategory channel's Category</description>
<shortDescription>This is TopCategory channel's Category</shortDescrip
+tion>
<parentID>0</parentID>
<categoryTags>Vod;Download</categoryTags>
</cat>

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I am having an XML like this... I want to create a hash like 
CHANNEL123=>CATEGORY123
Channel456=>cat456
chann678=>cat678

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That is from each <cat>,I have to make channel=>name...How can i do that? Thanks in Advance

In reply to Create hash from XML file by ashok13123

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