Dear Perlmonks,

I am querying a sqlite database which contains XML data in a TEXT column using DBI.

Here is a sample of the data contained in that column:

<element xmlnssi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlnssd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"><items><item><data>some text here</data></item></items></element>
Although I can successfully retrieve the content of that column via a SELECT statement and performing some search and replace to get only the content of element/items/item/data, this is unsatisfactory: 
my $myQuery = $dbh->prepare( "SELECT source FROM myTable" );  

$source =~ s/<element xmlns:xsi=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2001\/XMLSchema
+-instance\" xmlns:xsd=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2001\/XMLSchema\"><items
+><item><data>//g;

$source =~ s/<\/data><\/item><\/items><\/element>//g;

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I would like to be able to match the content of /element/items/item/data directly against a LIKE expression such as (pseudo-code): 
( "SELECT ('/element/items/item/data') as source FROM myTable WHERE so
+urce LIKE '%some string%'" );

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How could I achieve this? What modules would I need?
Thanks for your help.

In reply to DBI accessing SQLite with XML data by Anonymous Monk

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