Very few things lead to a messier code than pull parsers, but feel free to go down that route.

Even with just 1000s of records it's a still insane waste of memory and CPU. Now if it's something that runs on your PC, fine. If you waste the resources of servers this way, good luck to you.

I don't see how this is much messier than a XML::Twig or XML::LibXML solution.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

use XML::LibXML::Reader;
use Data::Dumper;

sub process_record {
    my ($node, $records) = @_;

    my $name   = $node->findvalue('@name');
    my $citype = $node->findvalue('@ciType');
    my $status = $node->findvalue('dimension/@status');
    my $time   = $node->findvalue('normalize-space(dimension/body/entr
+y[@key="Last Status Change"])');

    push @$records, {
        name => $name,
        citype => $citype,
        status => $status,
        Time => $time
    };
}

my $bamxml = 'file.xml';

my @records;

my $pattern = 'XML::LibXML::Pattern'
    ->new('/nodes/node/children/node/children/node');

my $reader = 'XML::LibXML::Reader'->new(location => $bamxml);

while ($reader->nextPatternMatch($pattern)
       and $reader->nodeType == XML_READER_TYPE_ELEMENT) {
    next unless $reader->getAttribute('ciType') eq 'application';

    my $node = $reader->copyCurrentNode(1);
    process_record($node, \@records);
}

print Dumper \@records;
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