Hi all. I'm currently in the process of learning how to use XPath and Perl to parse the following XML document (simplified): 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<recordings type="array">
  <recording type="Note">
    <author-id type="integer">277210</author-id>
    <body>Text of the note goes here.</body>
    <id type="integer">34709871</id>
  </recording>
  <recording type="Comment">
    <author-id type="integer">277210</author-id>
    <body>Text of a comment goes here</body>
    <id type="integer">34719228</id>
  </recording>
</recordings>

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I mainly need to know about <body> and <id>, thus using the following: 
my $xml = XML::XPath->new (xml => $res->decoded_content);
my $nodeset = $xml->find ("/recordings/recording");
foreach my $recording ($nodeset->get_nodelist)
  {
      my $id   = $recording->find ("id")->string_value ();
      my $body   = $recording->find ("body")->string_value ();
      # Do something with id and body here
  }

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I would now also need to access the node attribute ("Note", "Comment") from within the foreach loop. Is there a method for extracting the attribute? Thanks, ~Oliver

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