Now, the obvious question is, what am i doing wrong?

Is that a literal copy/paste of your code? If so, proper (or at least consistent) indentation might help sort things out, or at least would help to rule out potential culprits. Looking at your code, my first impression was a scoping issue, along the lines of 

  while ( my $row = ... ) {
      my $node = ...
  }
  $list[0]->push($node);  # node may be undef

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Indentation would have made this one easier to rule out. My second impression is that $list[0] isn't really where you want to put your new tree, but then you're not showing us code that prints the page, so I can't tell.

Please consider a small, complete example that demonstrates the problem. The process of producing such an example is often sufficient to flush out the culprit.

In reply to Re: LibXML 'Fun' by dws
in thread LibXML 'Fun' by stefzody

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