#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use XML::LibXML; my @files = '/root/Desktop/your.xml'; my $parser = XML::LibXML->new(); foreach my $file( @files) { my $doc = $parser->parse_file($file); my $cmm_root_path_var = $doc->findnodes("//Test/*"); print $doc->to_literal(), "\n"; }