You XML is not well-formed. Many closing tags are missing, or you can make the Properties and Street tags empty.
<Properties location="SomeCountry"/> <!-- ^ -->

Then, the correct XPath expression to use is

//City[@name=$current_city]/StreetList/Street[@bars!='none']/@name

Tested in XML::XSH2 (after wrapping the fixed XML chunk into a Cities element), a wrapper around XML::LibXML:

open cities.xml ; my $current_city = 'Some City' ; echo //City[@name=$current_city]/StreetList/Street[@bars!='none']/@nam +e ;

Update: The same thing using XML::LibXML:

#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use feature qw{ say }; use XML::LibXML; # Only needed if the city name can contain a double quote. Tested with + "Some" City". sub quote { my $string = shift; if ($string =~ /"/) { my @substrings = split /"/, $string, -1; $string = 'concat("' . join(q(", '"', "), @substrings) . '")'; } else { substr $string, $_, 0, '"' for 0, -1; } return $string } my $current_city = 'Some City'; my $dom = 'XML::LibXML'->load_xml( location => shift ); my $quoted_city = quote($current_city); my @streets = $dom->findnodes('//City[@name=' . $quoted_city . ']/Stre +etList/Street[@bars!="none"]'); say for map $_->findvalue('@name'), @streets;

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In reply to Re: XML Parsing by choroba
in thread XML Parsing by nikmit

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