in reply to Not able to Matching nested item

I didn't have anything better to do on this balmy Saturday afternoon, so I coded up a solution that uses XML::Parser.
use strict; use warnings; use XML::Parser; my $p1; $p1 = new XML::Parser( Handlers => { Start => \&handle_start, End => \&handle_end, Proc => \&handle_proc }); my @stack; $p1->parse(\*DATA); if (@stack) { warn "stack not empty\n"; } sub handle_start { my ($parser, $element) = @_; print " " x scalar(@stack), "BEGIN $element\n"; push(@stack, $element); } sub handle_end { my ($parser, $element) = @_; my $top = pop(@stack); print " " x scalar(@stack), "END $element\n"; unless ($element eq $top) { warn "expected $element, found $top\n"; } } sub handle_proc { my ($parser, $target, $data) = @_; if ($target eq 'CLG.MDFO') { handle_start($parser, $target); } elsif ($target eq 'CLG.MDFC') { handle_end($parser, 'CLG.MDFO'); } } __END__ <?CLG.MDFO ID="O001001M004000" IDREF="C001001M004000" ACTION="REPLACED +" LEVEL="STRUCTURE" COMMAND="EXPLICIT" ACTIVE.DOC="306D0754" ACTIVE.L +OC="AR:1;PT:4" MOD.LEVEL="1" PASSIVE.LOC="AR:5"?> <ARTICLE IDENTIFIER="005"> <TI.ART>Article 5</TI.ART> <STI.ART>Recovery of costs</STI.ART> <?CLG.MDFO ID="O002001M003000" IDREF="C002001M003000" ACTION="REPLACED +" LEVEL="STRUCTURE" COMMAND="EXPLICIT" ACTIVE.DOC="308D0162" ACTIVE.L +OC="AR:1;PT:3" MOD.LEVEL="1" PASSIVE.LOC="AR:5;PA:1"?> <PARAG123 IDENTIFIER="005.001"> <NO.PARAG>1.</NO.PARAG> <ALINEA>All costs resulting from issuing the accompanying documents pu +rsuant to Article 2(2) shall be borne by the food business operator r +esponsible for the consignment or its representative.</ALINEA> </PARAG123> <?CLG.MDFC ID="C002001M003000" IDREF="O002001M003000"?> <PARAG IDENTIFIER="005.002"> <NO.PARAG>2.</NO.PARAG> <ALINEA>All costs related to official measures taken by the competent +authorities as regards non-compliant consignments shall be borne by t +he food business operator responsible for the consignment or its repr +esentative.</ALINEA> </PARAG> </ARTICLE> <?no_smark?> <?CLG.MDFC ID="C001001M004000" IDREF="O001001M004000"?>