If you want to write a short script, check out the XML::Simple module. If you are writing an application take a look at XML::Parser or XML::Twig.
Here is a snippet that may be helpful:
#!/usr/bin/perl.exe -w
use strict;
use XML::Simple;
use Data::Dumper;
my $ref = XMLin("./data.xml");
print Dumper($ref);
print $ref->{emp}->{name},$/;
print $ref->{emp}->{age},$/;
print $ref->{emp}->{address},$/
...and just for completeness here is the 'data.xml' file that I used:
<profile>
<emp>
<name>Mahesh</name>
<age>24</age>
<address>New york</address>
<desig>Developer</desig>
</emp>
</profile>
...and what my results looked like:
$ ./script.pl
$VAR1 = {
'emp' => {
'desig' => 'Developer',
'address' => 'New york',
'age' => '24',
'name' => 'Mahesh'
}
};
Mahesh
24
New york
--
hiseldl
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