I have an xml file with one of its child elements as: 
<datacolumn name="Latitude" units="Degrees">
   <item value="40.9408"/>
   <item value="40.7698"/>
   <item value="40.5629"/>
   <item value="40.3019"/>
   <item value="39.9689"/>
   <item value="40.0589"/>
   <item value="39.9509"/>
   <item value="39.9149"/>
   <item value="39.4199"/>
   <item value="39.204"/>
   <item value="39.078"/>
   <item value="38.88"/>
   <item value="38.772"/>
   <item value="38.754"/>
   <item value="38.502"/>
   <item value="38.403"/>
   <item value="38.331"/>
   <item value="38.151"/>
   <item value="38.0251"/>
   <item value="37.9981"/>
   <item value="37.8901"/>
   <item value="37.8631"/>
   <item value="37.7461"/>
   <item value="37.4581"/>
   <item value="37.4491"/>
   <item value="37.2601"/>
   <item value="37.2691"/>
   <item value="37.1791"/>
   <item value="37.1971"/>
   <item value="37.0261"/>
   <item value="36.9541"/>
   <item value="36.9271"/>
   <item value="36.5042"/>
   <item value="36.5132"/>
  </datacolumn>

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I want to extract this data using XML::LibXML but am not sure how. So far I have:
 #!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use XML::LibXML;

my $parser = XML::LibXML->new;
my $xmlfile = "20060402-201025.xml";
my $doc = $parser->parse_file($xmlfile);
my $element = $doc->getDocumentElement;

my @nodes = $element->getElementsByTagName('data');

foreach my $kid1(@nodes) {
    my $elname2 = $kid1 -> getName();
    print $elname2,"\n";
    my $lon = $kid1->getAttribute('Longitude');
    print $lon,"\n";
}

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This doesnt work since the datacolumn is not an attribute. I'm not sure what it is. Any ideas?

In reply to XML::LibXML extracting datacolumn by deadpickle

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