in reply to Relating data parsed with XMLSimple

Your way of defining the XML structure seems to be questionable to me. As it was already pointed out, you don't have a name-number association in your code. Maybe you can trick XML::Simple into returning something you will like better, by passing the option 

forcearray => [ 'Data' ]

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to XMLin(), but if you have the chance to influence the design of this piece of XML, I suggest that you redesign it.

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Re^2: Relating data parsed with XMLSimple
by mohan2monks (Beadle) on Mar 30, 2010 at 11:32 UTC

    This typ of data is received by Web service call with SOAP Lite.

    However i cannot even change the module to parse XML as this is old code which was already working and need to fix it.

    From CPAN i found that may be XML::Twig can be used to sort this out.

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      I do not think there is any mix of options that would convince XML::Simple to preserve the "relation" between Names and Phones.

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