If all you are interested in is the value of a single attribute then you might be better off using XPath: 

use XML::XPath
                                                                      
+          
$/ = undef;
                                                                      
+          
my $foo = <DATA>;
my $xp = XML::XPath->new(xml => $foo);
                                                                      
+          
my $nodes = $xp->find('/RESEARCH/LINK/@PUBID');
                                                                      
+          
foreach my $node ($nodes->get_nodelist())
{
   print $node->getData(),"\n";
}
__END__
<RESEARCH>
  <xslobject name="research.xsl" />
  <PGFROM>12/30/04</PGFROM>
  <PGOFFSET>0</PGOFFSET>
  <PGCOUNT>1</PGCOUNT>
<LINK PUBID="584557" DOCID="100386419" CLIENT="0" HIDDEN="1" DELETED="
+0">
  <SCORE>1.00</SCORE>
  <PUBDATE>01/06/05</PUBDATE>
  <DOCDATE>01/06/05</DOCDATE>
  <EXPDATE>NEVER</EXPDATE>
  <TITLE>SC 4 DOC AND IMAGE</TITLE>
  <URI>/DDL/servlets/dv.search?docID=100386419&amp;searchType=INTRANET
+</URI>
   <FILETYPE>doc</FILETYPE>
  </LINK>
</RESEARCH>

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(BTW, Your XML is not well formed - you need to render the ampersand in the URI as the entity &amp;)

/J\

In reply to Re: Parsing XML - SAX events by gellyfish
in thread Parsing XML - SAX events by ghouse

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