I might be approaching my problem from a remedial point of view. I have included a simple example xml file similar to my real data file. I have a simple working perl script to read it. My problem arises because I have a varying number of products under each group. I can use first_child to get the first one, but I don't know how to get each 'product' after that. From the documentation, I decided to determine how many of them there are using within_element.

The documentation also says you must use generate_ns_name(NAME,URI) to define $gs. I can't find an example of calling generate_ns_name or within_element. 

My xml file looks like this:
========company.xml=======
<comany>
<group>
    <name>dev group 1</name>
    <product>product 1</product>
    <product>product 2</product>
    <product>product 3</product>
    <product>product 4</product>
</group>
<group>
    <name>dev group 2</name>
    <product>product 1</product>
    <product>product 2</product>
</group>
</company>

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========company.pl========
#!/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use XML::Twig;

my $field= 'group';

my $twig= new XML::Twig;

$twig->parsefile( "company.xml"); # build the twig

my $root= $twig->root;            # get the root of the twig
my @group = $root->children;      # get the list

foreach my $my_group (@group)     # the sorted list
{ 
   print "\nGroup Name: ",$my_group->first_child("name")->text;
   print "\nGroup Name: ",$my_group->first_child("product")->text;
}
================

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Thanks,
Patrick
patrick_breithaupt( at )mentorg.com

Edit kudra, 2001-09-24 Removed cpde tags around text

In reply to Trying to use XML::Twig by Anonymous Monk

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