Hi All, I'm trying to work with mixed content XML files using LibXML but I have a problem. For an example data set such as : 
<root>
  <node>text1
   <child1>data</child1>
   <child2>data2</child2>
  </node>
  <node>text2
   <child1>blah</child1>
   ..etc..
  </node>
</root>

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How can I use the text value of nodes without also getting all of the information on child1 and child2 as well? Using the following code : 
use XML::LibXML;

my $file = $ARGV[0];
print $file."\n";
&parse($file);

sub parse {
my $filename = shift;
my $parser = XML::LibXML->new();
my $doc    = $parser->parse_file("$filename");

  foreach my $node ($doc->findnodes('/root/node')) {
    print "string value :".$node->string_value."\n";
    print "to literal :".$node->to_literal."\n";
    print "node name :".$node->nodeName()."\n";
  }
}

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I see the following output : 
string value :text1
   data
   data2

to literal :text1
   data
   data2

node name :node
string value :text2
   blah
   blah2

to literal :text2
   blah
   blah2

node name :node

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Ideally I would like to access just the values 'text1' and 'text2' Hope this all makes sense, thanks in advance for any answers.

In reply to Mixed XML content with XML::LibXML by lobeydosser

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