Anyone experienced any problems with the XML::Dumper module? I have previously used XML::Simple to persistently store data, but was hoping to use XML::Dumper as it looked to be even simpler (less configuration options).

But, while I could make the pl2xml method work fine, I am unable to get it to convert the XML output back into a perl structure.

Here's a simplification of the code I'm using: 

use XML::Dumper;
my $xml;
my %config = ('a key'=>'a value',
              'another key'=>'another value');

my $dumper = XML::Dumper->new();
$xml = $dumper->pl2xml(\%config);
print "xml output: ", $xml;

my $config = $dumper->xml2pl($xml);
die "Uh oh" unless defined $config;
exit;

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The above code prints out a snippet of xml just fine, but dies because the return from the call to xml2pl is undefined. I was under the impression it would return a reference to a perl data structure. Why does this method not reverse the process - I'm not even getting any indication of why it's failing!

Any help appreciated.

In reply to Problems with XML::Dumper by theguvnor

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