use strict; use XML::Rules; use Data::Dumper; my $parser = XML::Rules->new( strispaces => 7, rules => { Time => 'as array', Times => 'pass', 'Day' => sub { my ($tag_name, $attrs, $context, $parent_data, $parser) = @_; if ($attrs->{'day-of-week'} eq $parser->{parameters}) { $parser->return_this(join(', ', grep( defined($_), map $_->{'start-time'}, @{$attrs->{Time}}))); } }, Month => sub{} } ); my $time = $parser->parse(\*DATA, 'MondayX'); print "Time: $time\n"; __DATA__