It's much shorter and also faster to do most of the work in XPath.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use feature qw{ say };
use XML::LibXML;
my $xml = 'XML::LibXML'->load_xml(location => 'file.xml');
for my $place ($xml->findnodes('/xml/Document/Folder/Place')) {
print $place->findvalue('Name'), "\t";
my $name2 = $place->findvalue('ExtendedName/Data[@name="NAME_2"]')
+;
say $name2;
}
If you want to learn XPath, I humbly recommend you XML::XSH2, a module I happen to maintain. It's a wrapper around XML::LibXML which features an interactive shell where you can play with the data and XPath. The above code can be tried like this:
$scratch/> open file.xml
parsing file.xml
done.
/> for /xml/Document/Folder/Place echo (Name) ExtendedName/Data[@name=
+"NAME_2"]
Location 1 Salt Lake City
Location 2 Providence
Location 3 Green Bay
Location 4 Casper
map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]
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