note sundialsvc4 <p> I would echo the sentiment that, if you are dealing with an XML document, you should use one of the many tools that are expressly designed to do that. &nbsp; ([mod://XML::LibXML] and [mod://XML::Twig] are my personal favorites.) </p><p> If you are trying to construct a &ldquo;customized&rdquo; XML output based on an XML input that you don&rsquo;t want to have to be terribly &ldquo;smart&rdquo; about, then perhaps a general-purpose templating system would be useful. &nbsp; [mod://Template::Tutorial::Datafile] is a really good discussion of this notion. &nbsp; Here, the application program is not specific, not at all, to what it is producing as an output ... it&rsquo;s just taking its output directly from its input ... but the input file is made to use standard templating constructions. </p> 1002321 1002321