Hello and good day to all!

This is the full code:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use XML::XPath;
use XML::XPath::XMLParser;

open (FILE, 'list.txt');
    my @contents=<FILE>;
close(FILE);

        foreach my $content (@contents) {
            if($content =~ m/(\d+)_(\d+)/) {
                $vid = $1;
                $xmlfile = "$vid.mp7.xml";
                my $xp = XML::XPath->new(filename => $xmlfile);
                $var = '/Mpeg7/Description/MultimediaContent/Video/Tem
+poralDecomposition/VideoSegment[@id="$content"]/MediaTime/MediaTimePo
+int';
                my $data = $xp->getNodeText($var);
                print "$data \n";
                };
};

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Actually, I found out what was going on by doing the obvious...I changes @id="content" for attribute::id="content" (unabbreviated syntax) and it worked fine...I don't know if it should be reported as a bug! Thanks anyway!

In reply to [fixed]Interpolation of variable in xpath by camelmanos

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