in reply to how do i parse xml webpage in perl

XML::Simple can not work with remote files. There are XML modules that can, i.e. XML::LibXML: 
use XML::LibXML;
my $x = XML::LibXML->load_xml(location =>
    "http://java.sun.com/developer/earlyAccess/xml/examples/samples/bo
+ok-order.xml");

[download]

In Section Seekers of Perl Wisdom