I have a large xml output file with data that repeats for each entity it comes across, like below: 
'timeResult' => [
                 {
                  'success' => 'false',
                  'connection' => 'eth1',
                  'portResponse' => 'OK',
                  'ns5:snmpType' => {
                        'cd5:targetType' => 'eth',
                       'name' => 'string1',
                        'cd5:protocol' => 'udp',  
                  },
             'localTime' => '2008-12-04T'
             }

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The section above repeats about 10 times per file (once for each host tested). I have successfully parsed the beginning section (getting the values of success, localTime, and portResponse) with the code below, but I can't figure out how to get to the 'snmpType' area, and put targetType, name and protocol into variables. Can someone help me to figure out what I need to do? thank you- 
use XML::XPath;
#
## create object
my $xml = XML::XPath->new(filename => '/sources/sample.xml');
#
foreach my $row ($xml->findnodes('/touchResult/scanResult')) {

        my $success = $row->find('success')->string_value;
        my $portResponse = $row->find('portResponse')->string_value;
        my $localTime = $row->find('localTime')->string_value;
        ....;
}

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In reply to parsing large xml file with XML::PATH by ktpmm5

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