I think that the results you are getting is exactly as expected. If you are accessing "script.pl?keywords=hai", CGI::XML (actually XML::CGI as it turns out) is going to write up the XML in such a manner that you can see the argument name and its value. (I think I got that right...)

If you are only trying to create an XML output of <cgi>hai</cgi> and the such, where parameters passed to CGI have nothing to do with it, check out XML::Simple. Then you could do something like this: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use XML::Simple;

my $xml;
$xml->{'cgi'} = 'hai';
print XMLout( $xml, keeproot => 1 );

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To make things even cooler, you can place the output of XMLout() to a file and then use the XMLin() function to bring it back in and read from the structure: 

my $xml = XMLin( 'file.txt', keeproot => 1 );
print $xml->{'cgi'};

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See XML::Simple Documentation for more of the juicy details. 

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In reply to Re: Problem with CGI::XML by Coruscate
in thread Problem with CGI::XML by wanadlan

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