What I can't figure out is, how to pass the name in $file to the event handler, or conversely, how to associate the found attribute back to the $file. I'm probably missing something obvious, but can't puzzle it out. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

You're missing closures, examples in XML::Twig traversing tree and storing in an array, XML::Twig n00b, Tutorials: Closure on Closures 

for my $file ( ... ){
    my $filename = $file;
    my %filnameKeyref;
    my $topicref = sub {
       ...
       $filenameKeyref{ $filename };
       return;
    };

    my $twig= XML::Twig->new(  ... => $topicref );
    $twig->...;
}

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Although you ought to write that as 

for my $file ( ... ){
    my $complexAssociations = FooAssoc( $file );
    WalkAndTalk( $complexAssociations );
}

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In reply to Re: XML::Twig newbie question by Anonymous Monk
in thread XML::Twig newbie question by slugger415

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