use strict; use XML::Rules; my $parser = XML::Rules->new( rules => { _default => 'content', 'sampling,sports' => 'content array', dataName => sub { return delete($_[1]->{language}) => $_[1]; }, place => sub { return delete($_[1]->{country}) => $_[1]; }, request => 'pass', }, stripspaces => 7 ); my $data = $parser->parse(\*DATA); #use Data::Dumper; #print Dumper($data); print "Sampling: " . join( ', ', @{$data->{SouthAfrica}{English}{sampling}}) . "\n"; __DATA__ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <request> <place> <country>SouthAfrica</country> <sports>cricket</sports> <sports>rugby</sports> <dataName> <language>English</language> <sampling>16000</sampling> <sampling>11025</sampling> </dataName> <dataName> <language>Africans</language> <sampling>16000</sampling> </dataName> </place> </request>