Thank you both for the replies! I see where I went wrong now.

That said, is there something that I've overlooked in XML::Simple that will actually break out the tags rather than what I would call the shorthand verstion( for lack of a better term )?

For example:

<void method="add">
   <string>baseball</string>
  </void>
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instead of

<void method="add" string="baseball" />
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or is this something that I'm going to have to re-parse and rewrite myself?