my $xp = XML::XPath->new(xml => $fpdomaininfo ); my $nodeset = $xp->find('//cidr-map'); foreach my $node ($nodeset->get_nodelist) { my $node_name = $node->findvalue ( '@name' ); my $ips_as_string = XML::XPath::XMLParser::as_string($node); $ips_as_string =~ s/ /:/g; # this prints nice list of ipaddresses # 127.0.0.1:198.168.1.1:198.168.1.2 print "