The xml isn't well-formed. It's missing an element at eof---a premature end of data error. Could you post the correct data?

Update: Here's an example using sample xml from XML::XPath: 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use XML::XPath;
use XML::XPath::XMLParser;

my $file = 'test.xml';

my $xp = XML::XPath->new( filename => $file );

my $nodeset = $xp->find('//employee');
foreach my $node ($nodeset->get_nodelist) {
    print XML::XPath::XMLParser::as_string($node),
    "\n\n";
}

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test.xml 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<timesheet xmlns:a="www" xmlns:b="xxx" xmlns="fred">
        <employee>
                <name>
                        <forename>Matt</forename>
                        <surname>Sergeant</surname>
                </name>
                <department>Development IT</department>
        </employee>
        <rules>
                <rule>NextRule1</rule>
                <rule>NextRule2</rule>
        </rules>
        <projects>
                <project a:Name="Consultancy &gt; fred" b:Name="Fred">
                        <sunday>0.00</sunday>
                        <monday>0.00</monday>
                        <tuesday>7.75</tuesday>
                        <wednesday>8.75</wednesday>
                        <thursday>7.75</thursday>
                        <friday>6.5</friday>
                        <saturday>0.00</saturday>
                </project>
                <project Name="Holiday">
                        <sunday>0.00</sunday>
                        <monday>7.75</monday>
                        <tuesday>0.00</tuesday>
                        <wednesday>0.00</wednesday>
                        <thursday>0.00</thursday>
                        <friday>0.00</friday>
                        <saturday>0.00</saturday>
                </project>
        </projects>
</timesheet>

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In reply to Re: Having problems accessing individual attributes in xml by Khen1950fx
in thread Having problems accessing individual attributes in xml by Gemenon

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