Secondly, there appears to be no relation between the "release number" and whatever it is that you want to change to the XML data. See how (not) to ask a question and How To Ask Questions The Smart Way.

I can't really read your question (did you preview it?) but the answer ;--) is most likely not to use XML::DOM. A short answer would be to use XML::Simple (if appropriate, if you don't get it to work easily, try an other module), XML::LibXML or XML::Twig. See the Perl 5 wiki for a little more details.

Thanks for your help.

I'm not sure I understand you right, but if you wanted to be able to remove or copy a <listView> (including contents) based on the value of the <name> tag you might do something like this:

use strict;
use warnings;
no warnings 'uninitialized';

use Storable qw(dclone);
use XML::Rules;

my $parser =XML::Rules->new(
    style => 'filter',
    start_rules => {
        views => sub {
            if (exists $_[4]->{parameters}{remove}) {
                if (ref($_[4]->{parameters}{remove}) eq 'ARRAY')  {
                    my %tmp;
                    @tmp{@{$_[4]->{parameters}{remove}}} = ();
                    $_[4]->{parameters}{remove} = \%tmp;
                } elsif (ref($_[4]->{parameters}{remove}) ne 'HASH')  
+{
                    die "The remove parameter must be either a HASH or
+ ARRAY reference!\n";
                };
            }
            if (exists $_[4]->{parameters}{copy} and ref($_[4]->{param
+eters}{copy}) ne 'HASH')  {
                die "The copy parameter must be either a HASH or ARRAY
+ reference!\n";
            }
            1;
        }
    },
    rules => {
        _default => 'raw extended',
        listView => sub {
            my $name = $_[1]->{':name'}{_content};
            if (exists $_[4]->{parameters}{copy}{$name}) {
                if (exists $_[4]->{parameters}{remove}{$name}) {
                    # rename
                    $_[1]->{':name'}{_content} = $_[4]->{parameters}{c
+opy}{$name};
                    return $_[0] => $_[1];
                } else {
                    # copy
                    my $copy = dclone($_[1]);
                    $copy->{':name'}{_content} = $_[4]->{parameters}{c
+opy}{$name};
#                    return $_[0] => $_[1], $_[0] => $copy;
                    return [ [$_[0] => $_[1]], "\n    ", [$_[0] => $co
+py]];
                }
            } elsif (exists $_[4]->{parameters}{remove}{$name}) {
                # remove
                return;
            } else {
                # nothing
                return $_[0] => $_[1];
            }
        },
    }
);

$parser->filter(\*DATA, \*STDOUT, {
#    remove => [qw(Tab1)],
    copy => {Tab1 => 'NeTab'}
});

__DATA__
<hudson>
  <views>
    <listView>
      <owner reference="../../.."/>
      <jobNames class="tree-set">
        <comparator class="hudson.util.CaseInsensitiveComparator"/>
        <string>zip</string>
      </jobNames>
      <name>Tab1</name>
    </listView>
    <listView>
      <owner reference="../../.."/>
      <jobNames class="tree-set">
        <comparator class="hudson.util.CaseInsensitiveComparator" refe
+rence="../../../listView/jobNames/comparator"/>
        <string>zip1</string>
      </jobNames>
      <name>Tab2</name>
    </listView>
    <listView>
      <owner reference="../../.."/>
      <jobNames class="tree-set">
        <comparator class="hudson.util.CaseInsensitiveComparator" refe
+rence="../../../listView/jobNames/comparator"/>
        <string>zip</string>
        <string>zip1</string>
      </jobNames>
      <name>Tab3</name>
    </listView>
  </views>
  <slaveAgentPort>0</slaveAgentPort>
  <secretKey>6afc684a9a6f353335bd0f68beccc999f3adc88cac</secretKey>
</hudson>
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