in reply to Not a hash reference... why?

Not a HASH reference at: ...file.pl line 14. Please tell me why?

That's kinda hard to do since your posted script only contains 5 lines...

I guess we could download your xml, & put it in a file with the right name. Download your script put it in another file. Install XML::Simple; and then run the script to see what error it actually produces and where...

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