I am trying to pull some simple contact information out of a XML file: 
<Project>
   <Contacts>
      <Contact type="Application">
         <Name>Shawn Penn</Name>
         <WorkPhone>111-111-1111</WorkPhone>
         <Pager>999-999-9999</Pager>
         <Scope>Manager</Scope>
      </Contact>
      <Contact type="Application">
         <Name>George Lucos</Name>
         <WorkPhone>111-111-1111</WorkPhone>
         <Pager>999-999-9999</Pager>
         <Scope>Manager</Scope>
      </Contact>
   </Contacts>
</Project>

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My perl program is as follows: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use CGI qw(:standard :html :forms);
use strict;
use XML::XPath;
use XML::XPath::XMLParser;
use XML::DOM;

#-------------------------------
# Declare variables

my $WebPage = CGI::new();               ### Create web page output des
+tination

        ### Pull in application name of file to read from
my $SourceXMLDir = "/doc/staging/ProjectInfo/" . $WebPage->param(App) 
+. ".xml";

        ### Open XML file
my $XMLFile = XML::XPath->new( filename => $SourceXMLDir );

my $ParseFile = new XML::DOM::Parser;
my $XMLDOMFile = $ParseFile->parsefile ($SourceXMLDir );

#---------------END File Declaration-----

### header
print $WebPage->header,
        $WebPage->start_html("Project Information for $ProjectName");

print "\n";
print $WebPage->h1("Contact Information for $ProjectName"),
        $WebPage->hr,
        "<table BORDER COLS=2 WIDTH=100% NOSAVE>\n",
        "<tr><th>Primary</th><th>Secondary</th></tr>\n",
        "<tr><td>",
        $XMLFile->find( "/Project/Contacts/Contact[\@type='Primary']/N
+ame/text()" ),
        "</td><td>",
        $XMLFile->find( "/Project/Contacts/Contact[\@type='Secondary']
+/Name/text()" ),
        "&nbsp</td></tr>\n",
        "</table>\n";

my $AppNode = $XMLDOMFile->getElementsByTagName ("Contact");

my $numberNodes = $AppNode->getLength;

print   "<table BORDER COLS=4 WIDTH=100% >\n",
        "<tr><th>Scope</th><th>Name</th><th>Work Phone</th><th>Pager</
+th></tr>\n",
        "<tr>\n";

for (my $loopIndex = 0; $loopIndex < $numberNodes; $loopIndex++)
{
        "<td>",
        my $ScopeText = $AppNode->item($loopIndex)->getFirstChild()->g
+etNodeValue();
}
        "</td>\n</tr>",
        "</table>\n";

print "\n";
print $WebPage->end_html;
print "\n";

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The perl script runs but it does not pull in any data with the getElementsByTagName() call. It Doesn't even run the for loop. Any ideas?

In reply to XML::DOM::Parser not getting data by Anonymous Monk

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