Hi, My objective is to read a xml file and extract data off of it as both the elements and attributes...well here, let me start by some codes.

<site-catalog>
  <site>
      <name>abc</name>
         <header>
           <date id = "1992-06-17T00:00:00">
              <fullname>AybBemGim</fullname>
              <a>101                 </b>
              <b>UNKN</b>
                 ...
              <operator>Zarzand</operator>
              <agency>NONE</agency>
              <run-by>Pepo</run-by>
              <observables>UNKN</observables>
           </date>
           <date id = "1992-06-26T00:00:00">
              <fullname>AybBemGim</fullname>
              <b>101</b>
              <l>+342809.83</l>
                 ....
           </date>
         </header>
  </site>
</site-catalog>
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I want to load these to a hash array so I can sort by the date id and extract the data inside that date id. my perl is as such:

#!/usr/bin/perl 
use XML::Simple;
use Data::Dumper;

$xmlfile = "/home/rob/xml/config.xml";

#create object
$xml = new XML::Simple;

#read XML file
$hash = $xml->XMLin($xmlfile);
%element = $hash->{site}->{header}->{date};
foreach $key (sort keys %element) {
    print $key;
}
#print Dumper $hash;
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How can I read the date id and the elements inside this tree?
(I have a feeling the answer is staring right in front of me but I haven't figured it out yet)
Can you guys give me some hints/ideas?
..thanx..