Everything I have done with XML has been with XML::Twig Of course there has been very little.
Recently I faced a problem kind of like this. I had a XML file that had fields that need to be updated each day the way I did it was to create a handler for element that needed to be updated 
my $twig = XML::Twig->new(twig_handlers =>
      {MONTH => \&upd_month,
       DAY     => \&upd_day,
       YEAR  => \&upd_year
   },
   PrettyPrint =>'indented',
   );
$twig->parsefile(XML_FILE);

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Then in the handlers i used the set_text method to replace the value to what I needed 
sub upd_month{
my( $t, $post)= @_; 
$post->set_text("$expire{month}");
}
sub upd_day{
my( $t, $post)= @_; 
$post->set_text("$expire{day}");
}
sub upd_year{
my( $t, $post)= @_; 
$post->set_text("$expire{year}");
}

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I dont if this would work well for your situation but it fit the niche I had to fill so I thought I would pass it along.
Desdinova

In reply to Re: XML Search and Replace by Desdinova
in thread XML Search and Replace by coreolyn

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