# ============ this is the HTML snipit from Firebug ==================
+========

<td class="fex_standardblack_font_small" bgcolor="white">
<input id="chkEquipment" name="chkEquipment" value="72" type="checkbox
+">
  4WD/AWD
</td>


# ====== this is the perl code snipit trying to access/extract the dat
+a

    print "\n  $node\n";
    my $B =  $tree->findvalue( $node );
    $B = trim($B);
    print "\n  $B \n";

# ============ this is what prints ================

  /html/body/div/div[4]/div[2]/div[2]/form/div[3]/div/table[2]/tbody/t
+r/td[3]/div/table/tbody/tr[1]

  4WD/AWD

# ============ this is my question ================
#
#    how do I access/extract the 'value="72"' data?

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