Update:

Posting here seems to mobilise me to look harder, even on a Friday afternoon before a 3 day weekend...
XML::Simple seems to do what I asked for below.

Of course, comments still welcome.

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I have been looking at XML parsing modules all day and either can't find the one I need or found it and couldn't figure out how to use it... so I humbly ask for help.

Given this XML

<City name="Some City">
    <Properties location="SomeCountry">
    <StreetList version="1">
        <Street name="Foo Street" bars="none">
        <Street name="Bar Street" bars="plenty">
    </StreetList>
</City>
<City name="Other City">
    <Properties location="Narnia">
    <StreetList version="5">
        <Street name="Lovely Street" bars="some">
        <Street name="Gray Street" bars="none">
    </StreetList>
</City>

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What is the best way to load only a single 'City' element with its related information, to query further?
I want to choose a street to visit while I'm in a given city with something like

my $current_city = 'Some City';
my $xml = Module->parse('myfile.xml', //City[@name=$current_city);
my @street_list = $xml->findnodes('/Street');
print "In $current_city these streets have bars: ";
foreach my $street (@street_list) {
    if ($street->{bars} ne 'none') {
        my $street_name = $street->{name};
        print "$street_name";
    }
}

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Running that would produce

In Some City these streets have bars: Bar Street

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