#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use feature qw{ say }; use XML::LibXML; my $dom = 'XML::LibXML'->load_xml(location => shift); my $xpc = 'XML::LibXML::XPathContext'->new($dom); my $rpt = 1; $xpc->registerNs("ns$rpt", 'http://www.url.com/path/for/rpt'); my $nsdevices = "//ns$rpt:device"; my @devices = $xpc->findnodes($nsdevices); say $_->getAttribute('timestamp') for @devices;