My apologies for not being complete. The file list is a manually created list of selected file paths. As far as whether or not they exist - if I pair the list down to just the first file - the script works fine. Here is the entire script: 
use XML::XPath;
use XML::XPath::XMLParser;

my $filelist = shift;

#Process file list
open(FILELIST, "$filelist") or die("Unable to open file");
my @files = <FILELIST>;
close(FILELIST);


    foreach $page (@files) {
        my $xp = XML::XPath->new(filename => $page);
        my $nodeset = $xp->find('//DCR'); # find all DCRs
        
        my @nodelist = $nodeset->get_nodelist;
        #@dcrs = map($_->string_value, @nodelist);
        @dcrs = map {$_->string_value ? $_->string_value : ()} @nodeli
+st;
        foreach my $dcr(@dcrs) {
           print "$dcr\n";
        } 
    }

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For some reason I thought I'd added chomp before and it didn't work: 
 chomp($page);

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In reply to Re^2: XML::XPath and processing multiple files by ATLien
in thread XML::XPath and processing multiple files by ATLien

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