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As usually, I present a XML::XSH2 solution. It's a bit ugly as sorting doesn't work the way I'd like it to (I might fix it in the future, though).

perl { use List::Util qw{ max } } ;
open xml.xml ;
my $names = /breakfast_menu/food/name/text() ;
my $maxlength = {max(map length, @$names)} ;

my $foods = /breakfast_menu/food ;
for my $food in { sort @$foods } {
    my $name = $food/name ;
    my $price = $food/price ;
    perl { printf "%-${maxlength}s %s\n", $name, $price } ;
}
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}map{substrSq`S_+|`|}3E|-|`7**2-3:)=~y+S|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a,
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