updated: i should have include a little more complex xml the first time. looking at page 213 of "Learning XML", it would appear that not even rudimentery xpath expressions are handled. or... i am sadly mistaken. trying "lastChild()" and "firstChild()" yielded same results! *sigh* hello, tried to use discussion for xml::dom::lite on cpan, but no response... looking for a module that is "pure perl" that does xpath. if i have some xml fragment like: 
  <quotelist>
    <quotation style="wise" id="q4">
      <source>
        Juan Ramon Jiminez
      </source>
    <quotation id="q5" style="political">
      <source>
        Thomas Jefferson
      </source>
     </quotation>
  </quotelist>

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what is the proper to way to get the "id" attribute's value? what is the proper way to get the string "political" and the string "Thomas Jefferson" returned? what i am trying: 
use warnings;
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;
use XML::DOM::Lite qw( Parser XPath );

my $doc = Parser->parseFile( '/rshome/jaw2/xml/practice.xml' );
my $result1 = XPath->evaluate( 'quotelist/quotation[@id="q5"/@style', 
+$doc );
print Dumper $result1;
my $result2 = XPath->evaluate( '/quotelist/quotation[id="q5"]/source/t
+ext()', $doc );
print Dumper $result2;

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i thought i would get "Thomas Jefferson" with this. not finding enough xpath examples to know if i am even using xpath correctly. i have both "XML in a Nutshell" and "Learning XML". thanks in advance for advice and pointers.

In reply to trying to use XML::DOM::Lite by jim_neophyte

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