There is a reason why I like XML::Simple. I don't end up with a heap of crazy objects with loads of impossible to remember methods and properties, but instead I get just a pure datastructure I can map and grep and loop through using the Perl builtin operators and functions. The AFAPITL (Another Fucking API To Learn) problem.

I don't spend my days massaging XML with Perl, Perl is only about 20% of my work and only about 20% of my Perl work involves XML. Days, sometime weeks, pass by without me having to do anything at all with XML. Thanks god.