Hi, Having a problem with XML::Simple. In a nutshell if I try and output an xml file containing a node more that 3 levels deep XML::Simple stops producing the correct output and starts inserting "<name>" nodes. Not sure if some option or another stops the behaviour but somethings not right, (my intend use of XML::Simple is to simply output a hash produced by a sub() as an xml stream, use XMLin below just to test).

Here's a demo of the behaviour, I read in a xml file and would expect XMLout to replicate.

#Read in raw xml, where test.xml is:
#<test><level1><level2><level3>testme</level3></level2></level1></test
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my $xs = new XML::Simple;
my $ref = $xs->XMLin("test.xml");

#Use dumper to show the data structure created by XMLin
print Dumper($ref);

#Complete the circle and output the xml
print $xs->XMLout($ref,NoAttr => 1,RootName=>'test');
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The correct output would be a replica of test.xml, e.g.

<test>
    <level1>
        <level2>
            <level3>testme</level3>
        </level2>
    </level1>
</test>
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The actual output is XMLout:

<test>
    <level1>
        <name>level2</name>
        <level3>testme</level3>
    </level1>
</test>
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Would seem that despite the dumped data structure produced by XMLin being correct.

 $VAR1 = { 'level1' => { 'level2' => { 'level3' => 'testme' } } }
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'level3' is not wrapped within 'level2', instead the hashkey's value is embedded within a 'name' node? Can anybody suggest why?

Many thanks for any advice!