sounds like you are on the right track, but just to make sure of something. "unable to find method 'new' via Module" is caused when the .pm file with the module name was loaded, but the new() method could not be found. Usually when i have this, it is because i mis-spelled the package name in the package statement, or some other madness which causes the module to load, but in the wrong namespace. I would double check the module for any problems in the package statement, including missing ;'s. You might even want to check %iXML:: for anything fishey.

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