I saw a related question when i was searching, but mine might be a bit different? i just started using perl 3 days ago, and its the second programming language i learnt. (first was matlab!) in any case, could someone please teach me how i can get the text i want? thanks!! here's my code:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use XML::DOM;
use strict;

my ($file, @rubbish) = @ARGV;

if ($#ARGV > 0 ){
die;
}

my $parser = new XML::DOM::Parser;
my $doc = $parser->parsefile($file);
my $root = $doc->getDocumentElement(); 


print "$root\n";
scanner($root);

   sub scanner
   {
       my ($rt) = @_;
       my $i=0;
       foreach my $track ($rt->getElementsByTagName('track')){
       foreach my $ping ( $track->getChildNodes()){
       foreach my $nde ( $ping->getChildNodes())
       { #my $nde = $nee->getNextSibling;

           if ($nde->getNodeType == ELEMENT_NODE)
           {
               #$log->info( $i.$nde->getTagName());
               print $i++, " ELEMENT ", $nde->getNodeValue(), "\n";
           }
           scanner( $nde );
       }
   }
   }
}
}


my file looks sth like this:

<track name="linguist.segments" type="primary">
- <el index="0" start="0.44" end="0.56">
  <attribute name="semantics">abstract</attribute> 
  <attribute name="type">description/assertion</attribute> 
  </el>
- <el index="1" start="0.56" end="0.76">
  <attribute name="semantics">abstract</attribute> 
  <attribute name="type">command</attribute> 
  </el>
</track>
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i want to be able to extract 'description/assertion' and 'command' from my code. Thanks so much! Ok, I figured out what is wrong. The text node is a child node of the element node lol.