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Did you have a look at MooseX::ConfigFromFile? You will have to implement the get_config_from_file method yourself, but getting data out of an XML-file should be easy.

Update: Even easier, MooseX::SimpleConfig uses Config::Any to turn your config file into Moose objects.

And as you know, Config::Any uses XML::Simple to read xml-based config-files.

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