That's not really what I'm looking for, but it's pretty neat.

What I'm looking for is something like this: 

    my $xml_fragment = <records>
                         <record id="001">foo</record>
                         <record id="002">bar</record>
                       </records>;
    my @nodeset = $xml_fragment =~ qx!//records[@id = '001']!;
    die "ids should be unique!\n" if @nodeset > 1;

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Note that no quoting is needed around the xml fragment; the angle-brackets should be sufficient to identify it as an xmlnode (including the whitespace). Also note that I'm inventing a qx quote operator to wrap an xpath expression, and overloading =~ to allow me to execute the xpath expression on my $xml_fragment scalar, which contains an xmlnode data element. The return value of the qx operator is a nodeset, which is just an array of xmlnode scalars.

Doug.

In reply to Re: xQuery functionality in Perl? by DougWebb
in thread xQuery functionality in Perl? by DougWebb

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