I saved your xml to a file called example.xml and was able to use XML::Simple to parse it w/o any problem:

$ perl -MData::Dumper -MXML::Simple -e 'print Dumper XMLin(q{example.x
+ml});'
$VAR1 = {
          'objects' => {
                       'object' => {
                                   'cur_date' => {},
                                   'cur_time' => {},
                                   'ecl_couloir' => {}
                                 }
                     }
        };
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My guess is that you really do have some garbage at the end of your document - have you printed it out with, say, single quotes around it so that you'd me more likely to spot something funny? I.E.

print "xml content: '$xml'\n";
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