Have an xml file in which one parent tag has multiple child tags and each of these tags have some value. I need to get all child node values in an array, iterate through each and perform specific task on values. When I try to get records what I am ending up is with entire child node as a single element of an array. How do read each child as an seperate element of an array. What I am using is XML::LibXML 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<cidconfig>
        <createnew>
                <logon>xxx,xxx</logon>
                <startnew>xxx,xxx</startnew>
                <choosecs>xxx,xxx</choosecs>
                <chooseapp>xxx,xxx</chooseapp>
                <chooseconfig>xxx,xxx</chooseconfig>
                <chooseconftype>xxx,xxx</chooseconftype>
                <startnew1>xxx,xxx</startnew1>
                <activate>xxx,xxx</activate>
        </createnew>
</cidconfig>

Code I have written

use strict;
use warnings;
use diagnostics;
use XML::LibXML;

my $dom = XML::LibXML->load_xml(location => $ARGV[0]);
my $root = $dom->getDocumentElement;
my @records = $root->findnodes("//createnew");
print @records;
foreach my $y (@records) {
my $x = $y->childNodes;

print "$x";
print "Yes\n";
}

Output

        <createnew>
                <logon>xxx,xxx</logon>
                <startnew>xxx,xxx</startnew>
                <choosecs>xxx,xxx</choosecs>
                <chooseapp>xxx,xxx</chooseapp>
                <chooseconfig>xxx,xxx</chooseconfig>
                <chooseconftype>xxx,xxx</chooseconftype>
                <startnew1>xxx,xxx</startnew1>
                <activate>xxx,xxx</activate>
        </createnew>

            xxx,xxx
            xxx,xxx
            xxx,xxx
            xxx,xxx
            xxx,xxx
            xxx,xxx
            xxx,xxx
            xxx,xxx
       Yes

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In reply to Get all child node values for a particular parent in xml into an array by rahulruns

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