From database records to XML (See related posts)

#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;
use XML::Simple;
use DBI;

my $dbh = DBI->connect('DBI:mysql:MYDATABASE','user','password')
  or die DBI->errstr;

# Get an array of hashes
my $recs = $dbh->selectall_arrayref('SELECT * FROM contents',{ Columns => {} });

# Convert to XML where each hash element becomes an XML element
my $xml = XMLout( {record => $recs}, NoAttr => 1 );

print $xml;

$dbh->disconnect;

<opt>
  <record>
    <id>1</id>
    <entry>1932 - 1939</entry>
    <modified>2005-04-15 22:24:44</modified>
  </record>
  <record>
    <id>2</id>
    <entry>Yet another entry</entry>
    <modified>2005-04-15 22:25:00</modified>
  </record>
  <record>
    <id>3</id>
    <entry>More stuff here</entry>
    <modified>2005-04-15 22:25:13</modified>
  </record>
</opt>