Good point. :) And thanks for the info on XML::Simple 1.08, it seems to work fine.

Not suprisingly, being on Perl 5.005_03 has been a huge headache for trying to do anything with XML. Even XML::Parser has a serious memory leak in it when running under 5.005_03 and passing it XML data via a string instead of a handle. Luckily I was able to work around this using IO::Scalar.

Long story short, since this is for work, I can't just upgrade Perl, although we plan to in the coming months (after being on 5.005_03 for over 5 years).