my $remedyqueue = $xp->find("./custom_attribute_list/custom_at
+tribute[normalize-space(name)='SLB_RemedyQueue']/value", $node);
    $remedyqueue = [ map $_->string_value, $remedyqueue->get_nodelist 
+];
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To remove the newline from the start of the value, you need

    $remedyqueue = [ map { (my $s = $_->string_value) =~ s/\n//; $s } 
+$remedyqueue->get_nodelist ];
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or, in Perl 5.14 and later:

    $remedyqueue = [ map $_->string_value =~ s/\n//r, $remedyqueue->ge
+t_nodelist ];
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Update: If you know you're interested in the first element of the nodeset only, you can call string_value directly on the set (see XML::XPath::NodeSet ):

    $remedyqueue = $remedyqueue->string_value =~ s/\n//r;
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($q=q:Sq=~/;[c](.)(.)/;chr(-||-|5+lengthSq)`"S|oS2"`map{chr |+ord
}map{substrSq`S_+|`|}3E|-|`7**2-3:)=~y+S|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a,
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