Yeah, the Tree style is kind of icky, I think. :)

To the OP: if your XML file is pretty simple, you should try using XML::Simple. It loads your data into a nice hash-of-hashes tree.

use XML::Simple;
my $xml = XMLin("foo.xml");

use Data::Dumper;
print Dumper $xml;
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For your particular example, I got these results:

$VAR1 = {
          'inside' => {
                        'name' => 'Wibble',
                        'content' => 'some data'
                      }
        };
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So you could get the contents of name like this:

my $name = $xml->{'inside'}{'name'};
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