Since you didn't provide your actual XML, I had to dummy some up based on the dump you provided.

<root>
    <Data1>
        <TIMESTAMP>2012-08-04T20:15:04.506-04:00</TIMESTAMP>
        <Data2>
            <DATE>2000-10-19</DATE>
            <ID>A95</ID>
            <STATUS>A</STATUS>
            <TIME></TIME>
        </Data2>
    </Data1>
</root>

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Using a slightly modified version of your script, I'm able to print the date.

use strict;
use warnings;

use XML::Simple; # qw(:strict);
use Data::Dumper;

my $simple = XML::Simple->new();
my $config = $simple->XMLin('parse3.xml'); # /home/parse3.xml isn't va
+lid on my system

#print Dumper( $config ); # Uncomment to get a dump of the data struct
+ure

print $config->{Data1}->{Data2}->{DATE}, ".\n";

__END__
Output:
2000-10-19.

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In reply to Re^3: Perl XML parsing with XML::Simple - Having problem with accessing fields by Mr. Muskrat
in thread Perl XML parsing with XML::Simple - Having problem with accessing fields by vparikh

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