Parsing an XML file

Hello again. 

I have another happier question regarding XML.

I am a newbie but my boss has given me a very high priority on this.
(Today, or at least before thanksgiving!)

I have a large 80mb xml file. It contains records of data, with several
fields for each record. I need to parse this large xml file into
individual xml files, each containing just one record.

I have been investigating a perl module called xml::simple, and I was
curious if this is the best / a good way to do what I need to do.
Apparently it only needs to be done once.

Any advice?

Wab.