Actually, I *do* believe that the text "World" belongs to the b element and, therefore, not to the p element.

Sure, that's up to you. I can't speak to how other modules implemented it, but I'd refer you to the libxml2 documentation, and the Document Object Model Specification for all the "official" details.

Anyway, I described two ways you can get the text nodes of the current node. Using the XPath expression I showed is probably easiest. I can't really say more since you haven't described what it is you're trying to do with the document.

use warnings;
use strict;
use XML::LibXML;

my $doc = XML::LibXML->load_xml( string => <<'EOT' );
<html> 
    <head> <title>Title_Text</title> </head> 
    <body> 
        <p>paragraph_text</p>
        <div> 
            <div> 
                innnermost_text
            </div>
        </div> 
    </body> </html>
EOT

for my $node ($doc->findnodes('//*')) {
    print "<<<", $node->nodeName, ">>>\n";
    my @texts = map { $_->data } $node->findnodes('./text()');
    use Data::Dump; dd @texts; # Debug
}

__END__

<<<html>>>
(" \n    ", " \n    ", " ")
<<<head>>>
(" ", " ")
<<<title>>>
"Title_Text"
<<<body>>>
(" \n        ", "\n        ", " \n    ")
<<<p>>>
"paragraph_text"
<<<div>>>
(" \n            ", "\n        ")
<<<div>>>
" \n                innnermost_text\n            "

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You could also use XML::LibXML::SAX to get an event-based parser.

In reply to Re^3: XML::LibXML::XPathContext->string_value - should ALL of the descendant's text be there? by haukex
in thread XML::LibXML::XPathContext->string_value - should ALL of the descendant's text be there? by bobn

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