Hi monks,
As i am trying to learn xml with perl, i implemented a simple script which reads the input xml and modifies the few attributes values to CAPS letter.Below is the xml sample
<?xml versions="1.0"?>
<spam-document version="3.5" timestamp="2001-05-13 15:33:45">
<!--Autegenarated by RAJPATIL-->
<customer>
<first-name>Raj</first-name>
<surname>Patil</surname>
<address>
  <street>4th block tajajinagar</street>
  <city>Bangalore</city>
</address>
<age>30</age>
</customer>
<customer>
<first-name>Vedanth</first-name>
<surname>R.Patil</surname>
<address>
  <street>4th block tajajinagar</street>
  <city>Bangalore</city>
</address>
<age>2</age>
</customer>
</spam-document>

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#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use warnings;

use XML::Simple;

my $cust_xml = XMLin('./customers.xml',forcearray=>1);

for my $customer(@{$cust_xml->{customer}})

  {
   
    foreach (qw(first-name surname)) {

         $customer->{$_}->[0] = uc($customer->{$_}->[0]);

         }
   }

      print XMLout($cust_xml);
      print "\n";

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The Error message i got after running the script as:
XML or text declaration not at start of entity at line 2, column 0, byte 1 at C: /Perl64/lib/XML/Parser.pm line 187
In order to work this script do i need to install the module manually or is there any error in sample script? Monks, help to fix the issue, so that i will continue my tour of xml with perl

In reply to Getting XML::Simple Module Error by perladdict

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