I am processing a batch of vulnerability reports and and my XPath syntax is not working as I expect.

The block of code:

for ($xc->findnodes( 'fndvuln', $host)) {
        
    $fnd_vuln_id = $_->findvalue('./@id');
            
    print  "\n";
    print $fnd_vuln_id . "\n";
                    
    $commonRecord{"nCircleVulnID"} =  $fnd_vuln_id;
            
    # The Vulnerabliliy descriptions are in /audit/vulnerabilities
    for $vuln ( $xc->findnodes("/audit/vulnerabilities/vuln[\@id = '$f
+nd_vuln_id']")) {
        $commonRecord{"nCircleVulnName"} = $xc->findvalue('vname', $vu
+ln);                
        $commonRecord{"nCircleVulnScore"} = $xc->findvalue('vscore', $
+vuln);
        $commonRecord{"nCircleVulnRisk"} = $xc->findvalue('risk', $vul
+n);
        $commonRecord{"nCircleVulnSkill"} = $xc->findvalue('skill', $v
+uln);
        $commonRecord{"nCircleVulnStrategy"} = $xc->findvalue('strateg
+y', $vuln);
        $commonRecord{"nCircleVulnDesc"} = &clean( $xc->findvalue( 'vd
+escription', $vuln));

# This is where the issue is:

        if ( $xc->findnodes( 'advisories/cve', $vuln )) {        
            for ( $xc->findvalue( 'advisories/cve', $vuln )) {
                    
     print $_ . "\n";
                push ( @cve_records, $_ );
            }
        }
    }

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And the XML that it is reading:

<audit>
<devices>
<host id="125861" persistent_id="20164">
<fndvuln id="3522" port="161" proto="udp"/>
</host>
</devices>
<vulnerabilities>
<vuln id="3522">
<vname>
SNMP System Description Available (system.sysDescr)</vname>
<vscore>48</vscore>
<risk>Exposure</risk>
<skill>Automated Exploit</skill>
<strategy>Network Reconnaissance</strategy>
<vdescription>
The SNMP System Description (sys.sysDescr, OID=.iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.1.0) i
+s remotely available. This can give detailed operating system, build,
+ and version information about the target.  
</vdescription>

<advisories>
<cve>CVE: CVE-1999-0516</cve>
<cve>CVE: CVE-1999-0517</cve>
</advisories>

</vuln>

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Note the there are multiple <cve></cve> elements but are concatenated in the output:

3522
CVE: CVE-1999-0516CVE: CVE-1999-0517

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How do I make the for loop read the <cve> elements individually so that I can push them onto the array?

As always, thanks for any input...

Scott

In reply to XPath not behaving as expected... by spstansbury

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