I am having some issues parsing files and reading data into my hash. I am using the HTML::TokeParser module and here is what I am trying to do, I have a file set up like this:

<Item Name="Whatever">
    <replicant field>
        <NestedItem1>
             <Value1 = "One">
        <NestedItem2>
             <value2 = "Two">
    <End replicant>
<End "whatever" item>
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Now what I need is the parsing routine to look inside the main Item (Whatever in this case) and then retrieve the values from the nested items and put them into a value array inside a hash key (i.e.  %hash{Name}{ValueArray}) I have tried a few different setups and I cannot seem to get it right, it appears to work ok if only one of the nested items has a value (they are from checkboxes) however if they both have a value the program reads the first one into the array and stops. Another issue is the fact that I am having trouble regulating the loops to only look inside this main item. Here is two samples of things I have tried, any suggestions would be appreciated:

if ($item_name eq "LinkLocation") {
                
    $i = 0;
    $temp_token = $p->get_token;
                
    while (!($temp_token->[0] eq "E") && ($i < 3)) {

    if (($temp_token->[1] eq "item")) {

        $temp_dcr{$dcr_name}{Location}[$i] = $p->get_trimmed_text("/va
+lue");
        $i++;

    }

    $temp_token = $p->get_token;
    }

    $found++;

}
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AND

if ($item_name eq "Show Link") {
                
    $temp_token = $p->get_token;

    while (!(($temp_token->[0] eq "E") && ($temp_token->[1] eq "item")
+)) {
        if (($temp_token->[0] eq "S")  && ($temp_token->[1] eq "value"
+)) {
            for ($i=0;$i<2;) {
            $temp_token = $p->get_tag("item");
            $temp_dcr{$dcr_name}{Location}[$i] = $p->get_trimmed_text(
+"/item");
            $i++;
            }
            $temp_token = $p->get_token;
    }

    }
    $found++;
}
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Thanks, Bill

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