I don't understand why you don't get same namespace every time

Anyway, If the XML are small and you need access to just a few nodes you could you XML::Simple, for example:

use XML::Simple;
use strict;
use warnings;

my $xml = <<XML;
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
<sdnList>
  <sdnEntry>
   <lastName>Hello world !</lastName>
  </sdnEntry>
</sdnList >
XML

my $xml1 = XMLin($xml);2
my $result = $xml1->{sdnEntry}->{lastName};
print "result:$result\n"; ;

$xml = <<XML;
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
  <sdnList xmlns="http://tempuri.org/sdnList.xsd" >
    <sdnEntry>
      <lastName>Hello world !</lastName>
    </sdnEntry>
</sdnList >
XML

my $xml2 = XMLin($xml);
$result = $xml1->{sdnEntry}->{lastName};
print "result:$result\n";

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I've had performance problems using xpath queries, even it was faster to instantiate the document and consumed less memory than XML::Simple, overall it was slower accessing nodes ( which makes totally sense as XML::Simple returns a hash ).

My point is if you need a simple parser ( i.e: for config files or for consuming small services once a while ) I'd stick to XML::Simple. In environments of high volume or frequent parsing of huge XML documents I would use Expat instead it is really fast.

In reply to Re: how to get XML::LibXML perfect xpath query ? by bluescreen
in thread how to get XML::LibXML perfect xpath query ? by Kanishka.black0

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