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+# $Id$
+#
+# XML::Simple is relatively easy to use (have you looked at the
+# alternatives?)  but sometimes even XML::Simple's internal
+# representation is not immediately obvious.  On days when it'd be
+# easier to write the XML by hand and let a machine tell you how
+# XML::Simple would represent it, run this script.
+
+eval 'exec perl -w -S $0 ${1+"$@"}'
+    if 0;
+
+use strict;
+use XML::Simple;
+use Data::Dumper;
+
+my $xs = XML::Simple->new(KeepRoot => 1,
+			  ForceArray => [qw(list_class)],
+			  KeyAttr => [qw(header)],
+ 			  NormalizeSpace => 2);
+
+my @xml = <>;
+shift(@xml) while (@xml && $xml[0] =~ /^\s*$/);
+$xml[0] =~ s/^\s+// if (@xml);
+
+print(Dumper($xs->XMLin(join('', @xml))));