> That sounded promising but has no effect. Whether before or after the selected element, the text is not available.

I probably wasn't clear enough. This was not an advice how to solve the problem, it was an attempt to show you how Twig behaves.

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

use XML::Twig;

my $xml = XML::Twig->new(
    twig_handlers => { 'text:bookmark' => \&handler_bookmark } );

$xml->parse(\*DATA);

print qq(\n\n);
# $xml->print;

exit(0);

sub handler_bookmark {
    my ($twig, $bookmark)= @_;

    $bookmark->parent->print;
}

__DATA__
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<text:h text:style-name="P900" text:outline-level="3">
BEFORE<text:bookmark text:name="_asdfqwerzxcv"/>Foo bar
</text:h>

[download]
Output: 
<text:h text:outline-level="3" text:style-name="P900">
BEFORE<text:bookmark text:name="_asdfqwerzxcv"/></text:h>

[download]
See? "BEFORE" is there, while "Foo bar" is not.

map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]

In reply to Re^3: XML::Twig not finding an element's parent's text by choroba
in thread XML::Twig not finding an element's parent's text by mldvx4

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