Perl monks,

I have a wee problem I can seem to solve. I don't want to get into
should XML::Simple be used, it's not relevant to my question... I don't
think.  Below is some very simple XML and below that the output after
passing it through Dumper.

As you can see phone2 is a blank tag (no contents) and it has the oddest
representation in the Dumper output.  How do I detect that?

  my $xml            = XMLin ($data, ForceArray => 0)

For non-blank tags <phone1></phone1>  / $xml->{message}->{phone1}  works
fine.  for a blank tag, I get other less interesting data.

Suggestions?



<event>
<type>ADD</type>
<message>
<msgtype>PHONE</msgtype>
<phone1>15105551212</phone1>
<phone2></phone2>
<wav>YES</wav>
<custID>digits</custID>
<status>ALERT</status>
</message>
</event>


 $VAR1 = {
         'type' => 'ADD',
           'message' => {
                          'status' => 'ALERT',
                          'phone1' => '15105551212',
                          'custID' => 'digits',
                          'phone2' => {},
                          'wav' => 'YES',
                          'msgtype' => 'PHONE'
                        }
         };



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