Jenda, you are of course right in the general case. My original posting said "use stringification or join" to avoid that the 2nd and later lines are taken as XML::Simple options. I was just pointing the OP in the right direction and was trusting him to figure out if spaces are significant for his application or not. If so, a local $" = '' or, like I said before, a  join '', @array would do the job.

BTW, my XML file was a XHTML website.