I've got an XML file and need to parse out the measurements for a particular product. The measurement type is determined by <c093> tag (01- height 02-width 03-length 04-weight). I try to query it with this code but the Xpath query keeps saying "error in xpath expression" even though it works in my XML editor.
the code is:
use strict; use XML::Twig; use XML::XPath; use XML::XPath::XMLParser; my $twig= new XML::Twig( TwigHandlers => { product => \&product } ); + $twig->parsefile("file.xml"); my @height = $twig->get_xpath ('//measure[string(c093)="01"]'); #if i + want to get the length
****************************************************** the xml file is:
<message> <product> <measure> <c093>01</c093> <c094>229.0</c094> <c095>mm</c095> </measure> <measure> <c093>02</c093> <c094>152.0</c094> <c095>mm</c095> </measure> <measure> <c093>03</c093> <c094>15.0</c094> <c095>mm</c095> </measure> <measure> <c093>08</c093> <c094>24</c094> <c095>oz</c095> </measure> </product>

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