#!/usr/bin/perl -- use strict; use warnings; use XML::XPath; Main( @ARGV ); exit( 0 ); sub Main { use XML::XPath; my $xc = XML::XPath->new(xml => SampleXML() ); print "ORIGINAL XML\n"; print $xc->findnodes_as_string('/'), "\n\n"; print "//blocks MATCHES MANY NODES \n"; $xc->setNodeText( '//blocks', ' blah blah ' ); print $xc->findnodes_as_string('/'), "\n\n"; print '//cidr-map-to[@name="AKA Edge"]/blocks MATCHES MANY NODES', "\n"; $xc->setNodeText( '//cidr-map-to[@name="AKA Edge"]/blocks', ' aha 42 ' ); print $xc->findnodes_as_string('/'), "\n\n"; print '//cidr-map[2]/cidr-map-to/blocks MATCHES ONE NODE', "\n"; $xc->setNodeText( '/Product/cidr-map[2]/cidr-map-to/blocks', ' eureka ' ); $xc->setNodeText( '//cidr-map[2]/cidr-map-to/blocks', ' eureka ' ); $xc->setNodeText( '//cidr-map[@name="Prod Internal Actual"]/cidr-map-to/blocks', ' eureka ' ); print $xc->findnodes_as_string('/'), "\n\n"; } sub SampleXML { return <<'__XML__'; 127.0.241.174 127.0.0.181 127.0.12.1 10.0.0.1 198.168.1.1 __XML__ } __END__ ORIGINAL XML 127.0.241.174 127.0.0.181 127.0.12.1 10.0.0.1 198.168.1.1 //blocks MATCHES MANY NODES blah blah blah blah //cidr-map-to[@name="AKA Edge"]/blocks MATCHES MANY NODES aha 42 aha 42 //cidr-map[2]/cidr-map-to/blocks MATCHES ONE NODE aha 42 eureka