As anonymonk points out there is no need to create the parsed elements from scratch:
# parsing File 1 my @nodes_from_file1 = $parser->findnodes('//Feature'); # or whatever it is you need in each node # later my $new = XML::LibXML::Document->new('1.0', 'utf-8'); my $features = $new->createElement( 'Features' ); my $file1 = $new->createElement( 'File1' ); for my $node (@nodes_from_file1) { $file1->addChild( $node ); } $features->addChild( $file1 ); # and so on
Using your sample data (which has errors btw) this would produce:
<Features> <File1> <Feature> <Number>86839</Number> <Prefix>419</Prefix> <Alt>73924</Alt> </Feature> <Feature> <Number>82783</Number> <Prefix>826</Prefix> <Alt>27800</Alt> </Feature> <Feature> <Number>82783</Number> <Prefix>827</Prefix> <Alt>26433</Alt> </Feature> </File1> </Features>

In reply to Re: copy XML elements from one file to another by tangent
in thread copy XML elements from one file to another by Anonymous Monk

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