I am re-posting because my original question was updated too many times so it might have been a little confusing. My apologies.

The problem I have is that XML::Twig seems to disregard the map_xmlns argument. Could someone tell me what's wrong with my code? The warn "matched!" never get's called.

use XML::Twig;
use strict;
my $twig = XML::Twig->new(
    map_xmlns => {
        "http://perlmonks.org"  => 'aaa',
        "http://perlmonks.org/blah"=> 'bbb'
    },
    TwigHandlers => {
        '/aaa:monastery/aaa:foo/bbb:bar/bbb:monk' => sub { warn "match
+ed!"; $_[0]->purge; }
    }
);

my $xml =<<XML;
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<prefix:monastery xmlns:prefix="http://perlmonks.org">
  <prefix:foo>
    <prefix2:bar xmlns:prefix2="http://perlmonks.org/blah">
       <prefix2:monk>Larry Wall</prefix2:monk>
    </prefix2:bar>
  </prefix:foo>
</prefix:monastery>
XML

$twig->parse($xml);
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