I've read through here, and trying to use some of the exampled, which work perfectly, sems straightforward. So what am I doing wrong? For this XML 
<APPLIANCE_LIST_OUTPUT>
  <RESPONSE>
    <DATETIME>2014-06-27T13:38:55Z</DATETIME>
    <APPLIANCE_LIST>
      <APPLIANCE>
        <ID>76297</ID>
        <NAME>st0153</NAME>
        <SOFTWARE_VERSION></SOFTWARE_VERSION>
        <RUNNING_SCAN_COUNT>0</RUNNING_SCAN_COUNT>
        <STATUS>Online</STATUS>
      </APPLIANCE>
      <APPLIANCE>
        <ID>53489</ID>
        <NAME>THD-Mexico</NAME>
        <SOFTWARE_VERSION>2.6</SOFTWARE_VERSION>
        <RUNNING_SCAN_COUNT>0</RUNNING_SCAN_COUNT>
        <STATUS>Online</STATUS>
      </APPLIANCE>
      <APPLIANCE>
        <ID>76079</ID>
        <NAME>QAPLRScanner</NAME>
        <SOFTWARE_VERSION></SOFTWARE_VERSION>
        <RUNNING_SCAN_COUNT>0</RUNNING_SCAN_COUNT>
        <STATUS>Online</STATUS>
      </APPLIANCE>
</APPLIANCE_LIST>
  </RESPONSE>
</APPLIANCE_LIST_OUTPUT>

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Why doesn't this work to output the STATUS node per line? 
use XML::LibXML qw();
my $xml = XML::LibXML->load_xml(location => 'output.xml');
for ($xml->findnodes('//appliance_list_output[@status]')) {
    print $_->getAttribute('status') . "\n";
    #print $_->getElementsbyTagName('status') . "\n";
    print $_ . "\n";
}

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Ive' tried various ways to do this, but no matter what irt doesn't seem to enter the "for" loop. BUt if I change the Xpath, it complains, so it seems to READ the XML and have it parsed correctly, but won't examine it? Stumped, thanks in advance...

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