I want to retrieve value of <release-date> element where <title> having value 'Solaris' and not other title elements. ... 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

If the question is what is the <release-date> of the movie with the <title> "Solaris", isn't the correct answer "2002-11-27"? Both XML::LibXML and XML::XPath seem to work fine for me with the exact XPath expression you've shown. <update> All that the code you showed seems to try to do is build an array of hashes containing the <title> elements' values, which doesn't seem to fit your problem statement. </update>

my $file = '/tmp/1193350.xml';
my $xpath = q{/playlist/movie[title='Solaris']/release-date};

use XML::LibXML;
my $doc = XML::LibXML->load_xml(location=>$file);
for my $node ( $doc->findnodes($xpath) ) {
    print "XML::LibXML: ",$node->textContent,"\n";
}

use XML::XPath;
my $xp = XML::XPath->new(filename=>$file);
my $nodeset = $xp->find($xpath);
for my $node ($nodeset->get_nodelist) {
    print " XML::XPath: ",$node->string_value,"\n";
}

__END__

XML::LibXML: 2002-11-27
 XML::XPath: 2002-11-27

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

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