in reply to XML::Simple - Duplicate Node Overwrites

Assign a different KeyAttr so that test will be treated as a list instead of a hash.

print Dumper XMLin($xml,
    KeyAttr => 'foobar',
);

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Re^2: XML::Simple - Duplicate Node Overwrites
by awohld (Hermit) on Apr 23, 2011 at 07:28 UTC
    Yep, that did it, thanks! Changing: 
    print Dumper XMLin($xml, KeyAttr => 'test');

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    Changed the output: 
    $VAR1 = {
          'test' => [
                    {
                      'first' => {
                                 'content' => 'Mike',
                                 'id' => 'white'
                               },
                      'id' => '1'
                    },
                    {
                      'last' => {
                                'content' => 'Gifford',
                                'id' => 'black'
                              },
                      'id' => '1'
                    }
                  ]
        };

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      Don't let some other node accidentally get compressed into a hash instead. Set the KeyAttr to the empty string: 
      print Dumper XMLin($xml,
    KeyAttr => '',
);

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