Hello, New to XML and need to use it, I know... Here is a sample of my XML: 
<AvailableBatch>
  <Date>08/31/2004</Date>
  <Available>
    <Sku>40</Sku>
    <Part>10                  </Part>
    <Location>20</Location>
    <Qty>1</Qty>
    <Time>18:38:01</Time>
  </Available>
  <Available>
    <Sku>40</Sku>
    <Part>10                  </Part>
    <Location>60</Location>
    <Qty>0</Qty>
    <Time>18:38:01</Time>
  </Available>
</AvailableBatch>

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I need to treat each <Available> grouping as a record and get the <Part> and <Qty> for each, then test each record against a MySQL table.

Below is attempt to try and use XML::Path, some code I gleaned from Perl / XML.

I can see how to get one element, but I could use a hint at how to group the child elements. The samples I see all count of the elements having attributes, which my file does not use.

Thanks, I hope I'm not too far to the "help me write me script" side, I just need a good hint or two. 

use XML::XPath;

my $file = 'available_batchnyyn.xml';
my $xp = XML::XPath->new(filename=>$file);


my $nodeset = $xp->find('//Sku');

my @zipcodes;                   # Where we'll put our results
if (my @nodelist = $nodeset->get_nodelist) {
  
  @zipcodes = map($_->string_value, @nodelist);

  
  @zipcodes = sort(@zipcodes);
  local $" = "\n";
  print "I found these zipcodes:\n@zipcodes\n";
} else {
  print "The file $file didn't have any 'zip' elements in it!\n";
}

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-dstefani

In reply to XML::XPath tricks and tips by dstefani

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