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Your problem is that your data is being stored as an attrib.

Try the "noattr" option for XML::Simple.

#!/usr/local/bin/perl5.6.0 -w
use strict;

use XML::Simple;

my $xs = XML::Simple->new();

my %data;

$data{text} = q{
line 1 text
line 2 text
line 3 text
};

print $xs->XMLout(\%data, noattr => 1)
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Outputs:

:!./t1.pl
<opt>
  <text>
line 1 text
line 2 text
line 3 text
</text>
</opt>
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The data will be preserved inside the tags, rather than as
an attrib of the tag itself.
Wonko

In reply to Re: XML::Simple and newlines by Wonko the sane
in thread XML::Simple and newlines by rbi

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