use strict; use warnings; use XML::Simple; my $xml = <<XML; <config> <param name="SequenceNumber">66</param> <param name="T1">6</param> <param name="T3">6</param> <param name="T4">540</param> <param name="DownloadDate">11-28-07</param> </config> XML my $tree = XMLin($xml); use Data::Dumper; print Dumper($tree);