Parse it with XML::Simple or XML::Parser.

XML::Simple example:

  use strict;
  use warnings;
  use XML::Simple;
  use LWP::UserAgent;
  use Data::Dumper;

  my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
  my $response = $ua->get('http://server/path/to.xml');
  die "couldn't fetch xml\n" unless $response && $response->is_success
+;
  my $xmlString = $response->content; 

  my @options = (); # put parser options in here.
  my $ref = XMLin($xmlString, @options);
  print Dumper($ref);
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-David

Fantastic repy, thanks a lot! I never tried using useragent so it looks like that made the difference for me.

What XML modules have you tried and what problems have you been having? Any of the common roadblocks I can think of you've probably already dealt with getting your remote RSS parser working.

Edit:It appears the solution got posted while I'd this window up and was eating lunch :). Mind my asking how you went about grabbing the remote RSS in your past project?

Sure, CPAN had a perfect example but that used LWP::Simple instead - I just hadn't connected the two examples I found. All the XML::Simple etc examples were all using xml files local to the server rather than a remote one which needs LWP.