Hi,
I'm trying to loop through an XMLed version of a play and find the speeches by one character (to be queried from a form later). I've got LibXML reading the nodes and have been trying to put the text I'm trying to hash the lines I'm finding with the scene to get:
Act 1 Scene 1
blah blah
Act 1 Scene 2
blah blah
and so on for all results so the user knows which part of the play the speech is in. My code looks like: 
use strict;
use warnings;

use XML::LibXML;

my $searchterm="THESEUS";
my $file="c:\\webroot\\dream.xml";

#Get the XML file   
my $parse = XML::LibXML->new;
my $doc = $parse->parse_file($file);

my %releventlines;
#Search through and find the correct field

my %act;
my $scene = $doc->findvalue('//PLAY//ACT//TITLE');

foreach $scene (keys %act)
  {
  my $item = $doc->findnodes('//PLAY//SCENE//SPEECH');
   #Finding the speaker
   my $speech = $item->findvalue('SPEAKER');
   next unless $speech eq $searchterm;
   my $text = $item->findvalue('LINE');
   $text = $act{$scene};
   } 
print $scene . "\n";

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and the XML is along the lines of: 
<PLAY>
<ACT><TITLE>Act 1</TITLE></ACT>
<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE I.  Athens. The palace of THESEUS.</TITLE>
<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>THESEUS</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour</LINE>
<LINE>Draws on apace; four happy days bring in</LINE>
</SPEECH>

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I'd be grateful for some advice as to where I've gone wrong (and I hope not too horrifically). Thanks.

In reply to Setting up a hash in a linear search through XML by Anonymous Monk

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