in reply to XML Node Values Based On Attributes

It's much shorter and also faster to do most of the work in XPath.
#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use feature qw{ say }; use XML::LibXML; my $xml = 'XML::LibXML'->load_xml(location => 'file.xml'); for my $place ($xml->findnodes('/xml/Document/Folder/Place')) { print $place->findvalue('Name'), "\t"; my $name2 = $place->findvalue('ExtendedName/Data[@name="NAME_2"]') +; say $name2; }

If you want to learn XPath, I humbly recommend you XML::XSH2, a module I happen to maintain. It's a wrapper around XML::LibXML which features an interactive shell where you can play with the data and XPath. The above code can be tried like this:

$scratch/> open file.xml parsing file.xml done. /> for /xml/Document/Folder/Place echo (Name) ExtendedName/Data[@name= +"NAME_2"] Location 1 Salt Lake City Location 2 Providence Location 3 Green Bay Location 4 Casper
map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]

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Re^2: XML Node Values Based On Attributes
by gpjahn (Novice) on Oct 04, 2022 at 11:11 UTC
    Thank you! I've not looked at XPath directly. I'll have to do that.