There are so many different ways to approach this given the size of the toolkit that is libxml2. Here is one native approach.

#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use warnings;

use XML::LibXML;

my $xml = XML::LibXML->load_xml(location => 'locations.xml');

my $nl = $xml->getElementsByLocalName ('Data');
my @text;

for my $node ($nl->get_nodelist) {
    push @text, $node->textContent if 'NAME_2' eq $node->getAttribute 
+('name');
}

print "$_\n" for @text;

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I've structured it this way because to me it is pretty easy to follow and clear what is going on. YMMV.

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In reply to Re: XML Node Values Based On Attributes by hippo
in thread XML Node Values Based On Attributes by gpjahn

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