<?xml version="1.0"?>
<playlist>
    <movie id="tt0112384">
        <title>Apollo 13</title>
        <director>Ron Howard</director>
        <release-date>1995-06-30</release-date>
    </movie>
    <movie id="tt0307479">
        <title>Solaris</title>
        <director>Steven Soderbergh</director>
        <release-date>2002-11-27</release-date>
    </movie>
    <movie id="tt1731141">
        <title>Ender's Game</title>
        <director>Gavin Hood</director>
        <release-date>2013-11-01</release-date>
    </movie>
</playlist>

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I want to retrieve value of <release-date> element where <title> having value 'Solaris' and not other title elements. 
use warnings;
use strict;
use XML::XPath;
use Data::Dumper;

my $xml = '../events.xml';

my $xp = XML::XPath->new(filename => $xml);

my $nodeset = $xp->findnodes('//playlist');

my $records = [];
foreach my $node ($nodeset->get_nodelist) {
    my $title    = $xp->find('./title', $node);

    push @$records, {
        title    => $title->string_value,
   };
}

print Dumper($records);

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I tired XPath something like  my $title= $xp->find("/playlist/movie[title='Solaris']/release-date", $node); But result is not as expected OutPut ::2002-11-27 Please do help !

In reply to get specific value of element using xpath in perl by snehit.ar

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