Thanks for the kick in the butt. I have spent most of my evening on this, and have gotten good results with XML::DOM. It is able to parse my document and pull together the information I need in a recursive loop ... 
sub printNode
{
    my ($theNode) = @_;
    my $thisType    = $theNode->getNodeType;
    my $nodeList    = $theNode->getChildNodes;
    my $name         = $theNode->getNodeName;
    my $attLength;
    my $length         = $nodeList->getLength;
    
    my $attList        = $theNode->getAttributes;
    if( $attList ){ $attLength = $attList->getLength };
        
    #print $sep x ($depth), "-NodeName: '$name' (type $thisType, $leng
+th children)\n";
    
    $depth++;
    
    for(my $i=0; $i<$length; $i++)
    {
        my $node     = $nodeList->item($i);
        my $theType    =$node->getNodeType;
        my $j=$i+1;

        if ($theType == ELEMENT_NODE )
        {
            #print $sep x ($depth), "[$j]Element Node: '", $node->getT
+agName, "'\n";
            #Recursive call to itself
            printNode( $node );
        }
        elsif ($theType == TEXT_NODE )
        {
            my $temp = $node->getData;
            #Sub out the tabs and newlines with text equivalents
            $temp =~ s/\n/\\n/g;
            $temp =~ s/\t/\\t/g;
            unless ($name eq "provinces") {
                print $sep x ($depth), $name.qq~="~.$temp.qq~"\n~;
            }
        }
        else
        {
            print $sep x ($depth), "[$j]UNKNOWN Node: ", $node->getNod
+eName, "\n";
        }
    }

    $depth--;
}

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I get the following output 
path="smallbusiness"
                en_title="Small Business"
                fr_title="Petites Entreprises"
                hideFromMenu="false"
                hideBreadcrumbs="false"
                    path="products"
                    en_title="Products and Services"
                    fr_title="Produits et Services"
                    hideFromMenu="false"
                    hideBreadcrumbs="false"
                        path="wireless"
                        en_title="Wireless"
                        fr_title="Sans fil"
                        hideFromMenu="false"
                        hideBreadcrumbs="false"
                            path="devices"
                            en_title="Phones and Devices"
                            fr_title="Tlphones et Appareils"
                            portalPageLabel="smb_products_services_wir
+eless_devices"
                            hideFromMenu="false"
                            hideBreadcrumbs="false"
                                path="details"
                                en_title="Details"
                                fr_title="Dtails"
                                portalPageLabel="smb_products_services
+_wireless_devices_details"
                                hideFromMenu="true"
                                hideBreadcrumbs="true"
                            path="plans"
                            en_title="Plans"
                            fr_title="Forfaits"
                            portalPageLabel="smb_products_services_wir
+eless_plans"
                            hideFromMenu="false"
                            hideBreadcrumbs="false"

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The last piece is being able to have the output in XML. the start of each node (i.e. "path" should be prepended with <menuitem and the end of each node (i.e. hideBreadcrumbs should end with ">" *or* "/>". Depending if it has children the XML tag should be left open, if no children, the XML tag should be closed. I can't seem to insert these tags within the recursive logic without having many repeating tags. Thanks a lot for any assistance you might be able to provide.

In reply to Re^2: XML::Simple processing by LPC2010
in thread XML::Simple processing by LPC2010

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