fyi: something crosses my mind this morning
you can output a hash in the same order as you inserted elements into it

use Tie::IxHash;

tie %hash, "Tie::IxHash";
$hash{any1}="first";
$hash{some1}="second";
$hash{big1}="third";

foreach $foo (keys %hash) {
    print "  $foo\n";
}

while (( $foo, $bar ) = each %hash ) {
    print "$foo is $bar";
}
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output should be:
>any1 is first
>some1 is second
>big1 is third
maybe XML::Simple adopt that.. dnt knw..

kindly perlig