Hello Kind Monks:

After some more hacking and reading, found my errors

This code will do the trick:

my @el =  $posNode->getElementsByTagName("itemName", 0);
    print scalar @el;
    print "   " . $el[0]->getNodeName() . "   " . nodeTypeText($el[0]-
+>getNodeType())   ."  \n" ;

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bottom line getElementsByTagName works just fine.

I have been tasked with parsing a XML document that contains inventory info. The root level is <inventory> and then within inventory there are the inventory items, Ie <item1>, <item2>, <item3> ....... Within each inventory item there are many elements that describe that particular item. Ie <itemName>jeans501</itemName>, <itemId>j501ab</itemId>, <countryOrgin>mexico</countryOrgin>, <style>, etc...

Using XML::DOM I have written code that will rip through the XML and dump the elements one-by-one.

Here is my issue.

Given the node <item1> how do I ask for the node named "itemName" and ask for the node named "countryOrgin"? I wan t to ask for the info I need rather than ripping through the full item and then grapping the data. The way a database recordset would work.

I think that would be prettier code.

Thanks for considering my issue.

kd

In reply to XML::DOM get Element By Name by kevind0718

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