XML Data Extraction

nishanth_ev has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello,
Can anyone help me out with an xml tweak ?
In my perl script at a particular point i get a return value from an inbuilt function which is a reference.
It is actually an xml data referemce. any idea how i can extract the values from this reference variable?
The variable is $xml
This is what i attempted but in vain :(

foreach my $key (keys %$xml)
{
        my $inha = $xml->{$key};
        print " $key => $xml->{$key}";
        my $prophash = $xml->{$key}{'Properties'};
        foreach my $k (%$prophash)
        {
                print "$k => $prophash->{$k}";
        }
}
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I want to get all the values from the xml reference variable.. Please help...

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Re: XML Data Extraction by dorward (Curate) on Jun 28, 2006 at 11:21 UTC
An XML data reference? What is this? Have you got a module which is returning some form of Perl data structure? Have you got an object with a bunch of methods for accessing an XML data structure? What output do you get? What errors do you get? What output do you expect to get? Running Data::Dumper over $xml should give you some idea about what its structure is.	[reply]
Re^2: XML Data Extraction by nishanth_ev (Novice) on Jun 28, 2006 at 12:04 UTC
Yes Data::Dumper did the trick.. Thanks a lot for all of you..	[reply]