Other day was monkeying with something trying to parse and grobble through an XML file (specifically a jenkins task configuration file) using Mojo::DOM. The file parsed fine, and I can work my way down to the tag in question (com.cloudbees.hudson.plugins.folder.properties.AuthorizationMatrixProperty) using something like walking children on the parent element. However I'm presuming that the dots are being taken as CSS class names and neither find nor at will return the element node I'm trying to get. Tried a couple of "obvious" things like using \Q and manually backslashing the dots, and passing a regex qr// as well; neither to any avail.

This was a one-off excuse to play experiment with Mojo::DOM and I've since worked around using XML::Twig instead. That being said though I'm still curious if there'd be any way to do this with the former.

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