Example of XML parsing in Perl

The following is just a one-shot Perl script I used to convert one's XML to a CSV file. For me(Perl beginner) it took a while to figure out a fast and simple way to parse XML in Perl. So it might be useful for someone else.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict; use warnings;
use XML::Twig;
use Text::CSV_XS;

my @headers = (
    'Picture',
    'StateID',
    'ItemTypeID',
    'Name',
    'Descript',
    'Article',
    'Price',
    'Qty',
    'ItemAvailabilityID',
    'SerialNumber',
    'Weight',
);

my %twig_handlers = (
    'Item' => \&handle_item,
);
foreach (@headers) {
    $twig_handlers{$_} = \&handle_tag;
}

my $twig = XML::Twig->new(twig_handlers => \%twig_handlers);
my $csv = Text::CSV_XS->new({sep_char => ';'});
my @columns;
my $have_picture = 0;

print join(';', @headers), "\n";
$twig->parsefile(shift @ARGV);

sub handle_tag() {
       if ($_->gi eq 'Picture') {
           $have_picture = 1;
           push @columns, $_->{'att'}->{'url'};
       } else {
           if ($_->gi eq 'StateID' && !$have_picture) {
               push @columns, "";
           }
           push @columns, $_->trimmed_text;
    }
}

sub handle_item() {
    $csv->print(\*STDOUT, \@columns); 

    # handlers are called when elements closed
    print "\n";

    # reset
    @columns = ();
    $have_picture = 0;
}

The XML was similar to the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE Items SYSTEM "http://domain.com/xml/MerchantItems.dtd">
<Items>
  <Item>
    <Images>
      <Picture url="http://domain.com/775/7757d248aeb782e916a9a51670171ec1.jpeg"/>
    </Images>
    <StateID>1735000</StateID>
    <ItemTypeID>29490209</ItemTypeID>
    <Name><![CDATA[Lamp 2541/8]]></Name>
    <Descript><![CDATA[ ... HTML code ... ]]></Descript>
    <Article>2541/8</Article>
    <Price>7267.50</Price>
    <Qty>100</Qty>
    <ItemAvailabilityID>3719000</ItemAvailabilityID>
    <SerialNumber>92645</SerialNumber>
    <Weight>0</Weight>
  </Item>
  <!-- ... -->
  </Item>
</Items>