There's always the .. operator, like: 

$ perl -ane 'print if /<request>/../<\/request>/' server.xml
<request>
<visitorID>4d1aebec-543b-41ae-8336-3a30462f5227</visitorID>
<reportSuiteID>aolmobilewebdev</reportSuiteID>
<pageName>wpt: help_pv</pageName>
<pageURL>http://mqa.aol.com/portal/default/help.do?icid=ft_help</pageU
+RL>
<ipAddress>10.146.175.162</ipAddress>
<userAgent>JoeDog/1.00 [en] (X11; I; Siege 2.70)</userAgent>
<scXmlVer>1.0</scXmlVer>
<timezone>-5</timezone>
<channel>us.wptportal</channel>
<referrer></referrer>
<events>event10</events>
<server>qawire-ql26.tweb.aol.com</server>
<eVar16>ft_help</eVar16>
<prop1>wpt: portal</prop1>
<prop2>wpt: Help Page</prop2>
<prop3>gmt_5</prop3>
<prop10>JoeDog/1.00 [en] (X11; I; Siege 2.70)</prop10>
<prop12>http://mqa.aol.com/portal/default/help.do</prop12>
<prop13>non-authenticated</prop13>
<prop14>no referrer</prop14>
<prop24>uaid_na</prop24>
<prop49>xml api</prop49>
</request>

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In reply to Re: How to get the part of the xml from the server log by Anonymous Monk
in thread How to get the part of the xml from the server log by perladdict

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