See Simpler than XML::Simple.

Your code would break if there were multiple <Time> tag in one <Times>. Here's one of the ways to do this with XML::Rules. It handles the multiple <Time> tags and stops processing the XML once it finds the requested day.

use strict; use XML::Rules; use Data::Dumper; my $parser = XML::Rules->new( strispaces => 7, rules => { Time => 'as array', Times => 'pass', 'Day' => sub { my ($tag_name, $attrs, $context, $parent_data, $parser) = +@_; if ($attrs->{'day-of-week'} eq $parser->{parameters}) { $parser->return_this(join(', ', grep( defined($_), map + $_->{'start-time'}, @{$attrs->{Time}}))); } }, Month => sub{} } ); my $time = $parser->parse(\*DATA, 'MondayX'); print "Time: $time\n"; __DATA__ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <Month> <Week>

Jenda
Enoch was right!
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In reply to Re^2: Extracting XML data from a tree by Jenda
in thread Extracting XML data from a tree by perlvroom

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