$perl newxmltest.pl
request: action_request: action: instance_information: application_type: application_name: environment: application_host_ip: application_host_name: request: action_request: action: instance_information: application_type: application_name: environment: application_host_ip: application_host_name: request: info_request: action: XML::LibXML::Element
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Context node set as |instruction_request|
XML::LibXML::NodeList
Size of action requests is 22
String value of action requests is "
            START
                 SomeApp 
                
                 app_name 
                
                QC
    
            10.10.24.56
                
                 somehost.domain_name.tld 
            STOP
                 SomeApp2 
                
                 instance_name 
                
                QC
                
                
                172.16.24.56
                
                 somehost.domain_name.tld 
            GET_INFO
        
    
"
To literal of action requests is "
        
            START
                 SomeApp 
                
                 app_name 
                
                QC
                
                10.10.24.56
                
                 somehost.domain_name.tld 
        
    STOP
                 SomeApp2 
                
                 instance_name 
                
                QC
                
                172.16.24.56
                
                 somehost.domain_name.tld 
            
            GET_INFO
        
    
"
To literal of action requests is "XML::LibXML::Element=SCALAR(0x81c770)"
To element name is "action"
To node value is "START"
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Trying to get the requests directly with an XPath expression ...
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XML::LibXML::NodeList
Size of action requests is 0
String value of action requests is ""
To literal of action requests is ""
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at newxmltest.pl line 127.
To literal of action requests is ""
Can't call method "nodeName" on an undefined value at newxmltest.pl line 129.