Greetings Perl Monkers

I've been parsing some XML files using Perl and XML::Twig. I've got the bulk working but I need to parse a final, separate file just extracting out one bit of data. I can to it with xmllint on the command line using - xmllint --format portletEntities.xml --xpath '//*[@name="FilterName"]/*/text()' | sort | uniq

I'd like to get this to work in the Perl code so the values I pull from this search with the other data, in the example below I want "Name_of_filter". Using xmllint with //*[@name="FilterName"]the surrounding data looks like

<portletentities:adminPrefs name="FilterName" readOnly="false"><portletentities:value>Name_of_filter</portletentities:value></portletentities:adminPrefs>

There 72 entries in raw, 56 unique. In Perl I'm trying this

130 sub parsepages {
131     my $filename = "portlentEntities.xml";
132 
133     my $p = XML::Twig->new(
134     twig_handlers => {
135         '//*[@name="FilterName"]/*/text()' => sub {$_->print}
136         },
137     );
138 
139     $p->parsefile($filename);
140 }

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Leads to this

unrecognized expression in handler: '//*[@name="FilterName"]/*/text()' at ./xmlp.pl line 137.

In reply to Help debugging xpath in Perl by tweetiepooh

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