I am trying to get the value between the elements and I am a little confused how to do this so far I have this to start my parser 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI qw ( :standard );
use Fcntl qw ( :flock );
use XML::Parser;

if (param) {
   my ($parser, $document, $users);
   open(USERS, "../../xml_final/users/users.xml") ||
      die "Could not open users.xml $!";
   flock(USERS, LOCK_SH);

print header;
print start_html;

   $parser= new XML::Parser();
   $parser->setHandlers(
        Start => \&start_handler,
        #End   => \&end_handler,
   $document = $parser->parse (\*USERS);
   close (USERS);

   sub start_handler{
        my ($expat, $element, %attributes) =@_;
        my ($flag);
        $flag=0;

        if ($flag==0 && $element eq param("username")) {
           $flag=1;
        }
        if ($flag==1 && $element eq param("password")) {
           print p("Good Job");
        }
    }

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what I am trying to do is get the values between the elements named username and password in the xml document which looks like this. 
<?xml version ="1.0"?>

<users>
   <user>
      <name>Joshua</name>
      <username>user</username>
      <password>pass</password>
   </user>
</users>

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In reply to How do I get the text value of an element using XML Parser? by krujos

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