Try stripping the problematic XML down to something that shows the issue, but is small enough to post. Also strip everything out of your sample code that's not related to the issue. Doing this has two benefits: the less work we have to do to help you the more likely you are to get help, and it is fairly likely that in the process of tidying up for posting that you will find the problem yourself.

Note that XML::Simple is not really a general purpose XML parser and often comes unstuck for "interesting" XML. You may be better to use XML::Twig or one of the other "less simple" XML parsers.

True laziness is hard work

In reply to Re^2: Parsing NWS Public Alerts in CAP/ATOM by GrandFather
in thread Parsing NWS Public Alerts in CAP/ATOM by johnfl68

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