Hi Monks!
I am parsing a XML file and having problems when trying to reach a specific node only when the value of the node above matches a certain value. I mean that I can only read the values of <Id></Id> if the value of <Type></Type> is equal to "LN". After the code is done I would like to have only the results for the "ID" tag that have "Type" equal to "LN", it should be WXY12345678 and 12345678XZW because the tag "Type" is equal to "LN". I hope I made myself clear but here is a sample of what I am trying to get done, but instead I am getting all values for the "Id" tags.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

my $a = do {local $/; <DATA>};

use XML::XPath;
use XML::XPath::XMLParser;
    
    my $xp = XML::XPath->new(xml => $a);    
    
     my $nodeset = $xp->findnodes('/OPEN/Info/Other/Id');
    
     foreach my $cid ($xp->findnodes('/OPEN/more/Info/Other')) 
      { 

         my $id = $cid->find('Id');
         print "**$id**\n"; 

      }

__DATA__
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<OPEN>
     <more>
    <Info>
     <Other>
      <Type>Key</Type>
        <Id>CONVERSE1</Id>
     </Other>
     <Other>
      <Type>Number</Type>
      <Id>1</Id>
      </Other>
     <Other>
     <Type>Sum</Type>
      <Id/>
     </Other>
     <Other>
     <Type>LN</Type>
     <Id>WXY12345678</Id>
     </Other>
    </Info>
     </more>
     <more>
    <Info>
     <Other>
      <Type>Key</Type>
        <Id>CONVERSE2</Id>
     </Other>
     <Other>
      <Type>Number</Type>
      <Id>11</Id>
      </Other>
     <Other>
     <Type>Sum</Type>
      <Id/>
     </Other>
     <Other>
     <Type>LN</Type>
     <Id>12345678XZW</Id>
     </Other>
    </Info>
     </more>
     
</OPEN>

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Thanks for the help!!!

In reply to Reaching Nodes Help with XML::XPath by Anonymous Monk

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