Hello Monks

I got this following problem:
I got a hash which I want to get into xml. My problem is that the content (keys) of the hash are ordered alphabetically. Thus the content comes into a different order to file. This is not a problem to xml itself but a problem for the tool-chain following my perl script, which expects things to be in a specific order

My hash is generated and looks in the end like this 
 my $TGROUP = { 
     COLS    => 4,
     COLSPEC => [... Array of hashes...],
     TBODY   => HASH(0x8b...),
     THEAD   => HASH(0x8bc...)
}

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and it comes it this order to xml 
<TRGROUP...
  <COLS ...
  <COLSPEC ..
  <TBODY ....
  <THEAD ...
>

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but the tool requires it in a different order: 
<TRGROUP...
  <COLS ...
  <COLSPEC ..
  <THEAD ....
  <TBODY ...
>

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Therefore it would be simplest to reorder the sequence of keys in the hash.. i.e. like that: 
 my $TGROUP = { 
     COLS    => 4,
     COLSPEC => [... Array of hashes...],
     THEAD   => HASH(0x8b...),
     TBODY   => HASH(0x8bc...)
}

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Is this somehow possible to do? I tried to create the hash once more in a different order but this does not work.

Any help is highly welcome!

best regards!
Tobias

In reply to xml using XML::Simple reording of XML-Content by tobias_hofer

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