#!/usr/bin/perl -wT use strict; use LWP::Simple; use XML::Simple; my $node = shift || 200_001; my $url = "http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=$node&displaytype=xml"; my $xml = get($url) || die "Can't get $url"; my $parsed = XMLin($xml); my $created = $parsed->{'created'}; if ($parsed->{id} == $node) { print "Node $node was created at $created\n"; } else { print "Data doesn't match node ($parsed->{id} != $node)\n"; }