jim:

You are right that the documentation out there is a bit tough. That being said, though, here's my first XML::DOM::Lite snipper ever ;-)

use warnings;
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;
use XML::DOM::Lite qw( Parser XPath );

my $doc = Parser->parseFile( 'test.xml' );
my $node = $doc->selectSingleNode('quotelist/quotation[@id="q5"]/sourc
+e');

print $node->firstChild()->nodeValue();
[download]

This uses your XPath query (minus the @) and gets the text from 'Node' object. (See the documentation for more info on what you can do with node object.)

BTW - I used the output from the 'Data::Dumper' to confirm that the 'Thomas Jefferson' was in the output, and with that I knew the XPath was correct.

The tricky part is realising that nodes can have multiple children (apparently!)

Anyway! Hope that get things off to a good start for you!

Kurt

PS: Happy Birthday Canada!!

Updated code for requested output.

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In reply to Re: trying to use XML::DOM::Lite by whereiskurt
in thread trying to use XML::DOM::Lite by jim_neophyte

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