#### //City[@name=$current_city]/StreetList/Street[@bars!='none']/@name #### open cities.xml ; my $current_city = 'Some City' ; echo //City[@name=$current_city]/StreetList/Street[@bars!='none']/@name ; #### #!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use feature qw{ say }; use XML::LibXML; # Only needed if the city name can contain a double quote. Tested with "Some" City". sub quote { my $string = shift; if ($string =~ /"/) { my @substrings = split /"/, $string, -1; $string = 'concat("' . join(q(", '"', "), @substrings) . '")'; } else { substr $string, $_, 0, '"' for 0, -1; } return $string } my $current_city = 'Some City'; my $dom = 'XML::LibXML'->load_xml( location => shift ); my $quoted_city = quote($current_city); my @streets = $dom->findnodes('//City[@name=' . $quoted_city . ']/StreetList/Street[@bars!="none"]'); say for map $_->findvalue('@name'), @streets; #### ($q=q:Sq=~/;[c](.)(.)/;chr(-||-|5+lengthSq)`"S|oS2"`map{chr |+ord }map{substrSq`S_+|`|}3E|-|`7**2-3:)=~y+S|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a,