You are probably best off using something like XML::LibXML. XML::Simple is mostly for people who just want to treat XML as if it were a big hash structure, and don't care about the XML elements, attributes, text nodes, etc.

use Scalar::Util qw[blessed];
use XML::LibXML;
use XML::LibXML::PrettyPrint qw[print_xml];

sub element
{
    my $elem = XML::LibXML::Element->new(shift);
    foreach my $child (@_)
    {
        if (blessed $child and $child->isa('XML::LibXML::Node'))
        {
            $elem->appendChild($child);
        }
        elsif (ref $child eq 'HASH')
        {
            $elem->{$_} = $child->{$_} foreach keys %$child;
        }
        else
        {
            $elem->appendText($child);
        }
    }
    return $elem;
}

print_xml element opt => (
    element key0 => (
        element devices => (
            element dev0 => (
                element(param => { id => "name"}, "joe"),
                element(param => { id => "type"}, "user"),
            ),
        ),
    ),
);

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In reply to Re: XMLout and keys/attributes by tobyink
in thread XMLout and keys/attributes by atreyu

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