um, I'm highly against that solution. You're loading XML::LibXML for fetching data only??? That's the wrong module to use. If you want to do that, use one of the LWP::* stuff

On the other hand, I think you fail to realize the power that XML::LibXML gives to you. namely, It supports XPath notations!!! Did you read my earlier post? I do use some XPath notation to extract the "Discussion" nodes out of the XML.