Hi all,

Would somebody please show some light on what's happening here.

I'm trying to parse a sample xml file like below 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<config>
    <type name="default">
        <report>Dummy1</report>
    </type>
    <type name="scenario1">
        <report>Dummy2</report>
    </type>
</config>

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When i run to parse with a sample script like below 

use XML::Simple;
use Data::Dumper;
my $lXMLFile = "$ENV{'PWD'}/xmlsample.xml";
my $Config = XMLin($lXMLFile);
print Dumper($Config);

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I'm getting proper result

$VAR1 = { 'type' => { 'scenario1' => { 'report' => 'Dummy2' }, 'default' => { 'report' => 'Dummy1' } } };

BUT if my xml contains only one <type> tag 


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<config>
    <type name="default">
        <report>Dummy1</report>
    </type>
</config>

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"default" is not becoming a key like above instead it comes along with "report" key....See the wrong output below..

$VAR1 = { 'type' => { 'report' => 'Dummy1', 'name' => 'default' } };

I was just wondering why this is behaving differently when we have two tags of <type> and when we have only one tag of <type> Would somebody please help me on this. I would like to have an output like below even if we are having one row. Am i missing something :(

$VAR1 = { 'type' => { 'default' => { 'report' => 'Dummy1' } } };

Cheers and Thanks alot Jins Thomas

In reply to XML::Simple parsing into a hash wierd behaviour by jthomas

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