in reply to Re^2: getting parts of the strings from a file into managable variables
in thread Help:getting parts of the strings from a file into managable variables

Hmmm, you might try changing the regexp to something like 
my ($key, $value) = m{^\s*<([^>]+)>\s*(.*)<}i;

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Although I'm starting to agree with the others that a real XML parser might be the way to go.
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