I am new to Perl and attempting to parse XML into an array of hashes using XML::Parser.
The script parses each child element of a <story> element into a hash. A reference to the hash is pushed on an array. When printing out the array of hashes, only the values from the last element parsed are displayed.
Overwriting the global hash is probably causing the problem.
I would like to either:
Create a lexically scoped hash variable but I am having difficulty due to the event driven XML::Parser subs (StartTag, EndTag, and Text)
Effectively deal with the global hash variable (by redefining it?)
thanks in advance monks -

use strict;
use XML::Parser;
use LWP::Simple;

my @curr;
my @stories;
# global hash
my %story;

my $xml = get("http://www.slashdot.org/slashdot.xml");
die "Failed to obtain xml " unless defined($xml);
my $p = XML::Parser->new(Style => 'Stream');
$p->parse($xml);

# print out the results
foreach my $hashref (@stories) {
    print "$hashref->{title}\n";    
}

#  StartTag - called when the start of an XML tag is found
sub StartTag {
 my($p, $tag) = @_;
 push @curr, $tag;
}

#  EndTag - called when the end of a XML tag is seen 
sub EndTag {
  my($p, $tag) = @_;
  
  # pushes the hash ref onto the array
  if ($tag eq 'story') {
      push @stories, \%story;
  }
  pop @curr;
}

#  Text - called when text data is encountered
sub Text {
    unless ($curr[-1] eq 'story') {
        $story{$curr[-1]} = $_;        
    }
}
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Example of a story element

<story>
    <title>Debian And WineX</title>
    <url>http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/28/1515220</url>
    <time>2002-05-28 18:25:01</time>
    <author>Hemos</author>
    ...
</story>
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