Inspired by the request over at hashes, arrays, and references... oh my (the gist is creating objects from XML), i wanted to create a "real" object - one that has accessor methods instead of relying on the client to access $self's reference directly. I also wanted to be able to specify those methods easily, and more importantly, be able to pass a hash to the constructor and have it assign all of the attributes for me. Enter Class::MethodMaker: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -l

package Beatle;
use Class::MethodMaker
   new_hash_init => 'new',
   get_set       => [qw(name instruments)],
;

package main;
use strict;
use warnings;
use XML::Simple;

my $xml = XMLin(\*DATA, KeyAttr => []);

for (@{$xml->{beatle}}) {

   my $beatle = Beatle->new(%$_);

   print $beatle->name, ":";

   print "\t$_" for @{$beatle->instruments};
}


__DATA__
<beatles>
   <beatle name="Paul">
      <instruments>Voice</instruments>
      <instruments>Bass</instruments>
      <instruments>Guitar</instruments>
      <instruments>Piano</instruments>
   </beatle>
   <beatle name="John">
      <instruments>Voice</instruments>
      <instruments>Guitar</instruments>
      <instruments>Rhodes</instruments>
   </beatle>
   <beatle name="George">
      <instruments>Voice</instruments>
      <instruments>Guitar</instruments>
      <instruments>Sitar</instruments>
   </beatle>
   <beatle name="Ringo">
      <instruments>Voice</instruments>
      <instruments>Drums</instruments>
      <instruments>Percussion</instruments>
   </beatle>
</beatles>

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Apologies to any Pete Best fans out there. ;)

jeffa

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In reply to XML::Simple + Class::MethodMaker by jeffa

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