You are not setting up up your 'POST' REQUEST correctly. There is no PARAM keyword being sent.

Update: correctly should be incorrectly doh!

Try this:

...
use LWP::UserAgent;
#use Commom module for convienence
use HTTP::Request::Common

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();

$content<<EOC;
<xml>
<name>mitd</name>
</xml>
EOC

$ua->request( POST, 'http://somewhere.com/somexml.cgi',
[XML=>$content]);

At receiving end something like this:

my $xmaldoc = $q->param('XML');

xmldoc now contains your .. well .. xml document.

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