in reply to LibXML error when trying to delete a node in DOM

Your XML document has a XML namespace defined. Use XML::LibXML::XPathContext to handle namespaces in XML::LibXML.

Also, the correct XPath expression to find tmmTableFilenameMap anywhere in the document is //tmmTableFilenameMap, otherwise the searching only happens at the current node.

#! /usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use XML::LibXML; my $filename = shift; my $xpc = 'XML::LibXML::XPathContext'->new; $xpc->registerNs(m => 'urn:mavenir:ns:yang:wrg-sc:6.0.2.8'); my $dom = 'XML::LibXML'->load_xml(location => $filename); for my $delete ($xpc->findnodes('//m:tmmTableFilenameMap', $dom)) { my ($parent) = $delete->findnodes('..'); $parent->removeChild($delete); } print $dom->serialize;

It gets even shorter using XML::XSH2:

open webrtcc_system_static_config_data_platremoved.xml ; register-namespace m urn:mavenir:ns:yang:wrg-sc:6.0.2.8 ; delete //m:tmmTableFilenameMap ; save :b ;

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