I am trying to get this as I believe Xpath expressions to be very powerful and I've always had a hard time understanding them.

The two examples marked OK above seem to behave the same way: 

use XML::LibXML;
my $tree = XML::LibXML->load_xml(string => <<'EOT');
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<language>
    <english>
        <widget ID="1">input</widget>
        <widget ID="2">output</widget>
    </english>
    <deutsch>
        <widget ID="1">eingabe</widget>
        <widget ID="2">ausgabe</widget>
    </deutsch>
</language>
EOT

test('english',1);
test('deutsch',1);

sub test {
    my ($language,$id) = @_;
    my @result=$tree->findnodes("/language/$language/widget[\@ID=$id]"
+);
    print $_->textContent . "\n" for @result;
    my @result2=$tree->findnodes("/language/$language/widget[\@ID='$id
+']");
    print $_->textContent . "\n" for @result2;
}

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Output: 
input
input
eingabe
eingabe

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In reply to Re^6: language selection via libxml by tangent
in thread language selection via libxml by banzai

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