my $zipfile = "test.zip";

my $zip = Archive::Zip->new( $zipfile ) || die;

my @xml = $zip->membersMatching( '.*\.XML' );

my $xmlfile = XML::XPath->new(ioref => $xml[0]->readFileHandle );

#error:

not well-formed (invalid token) at line 1, column 24, byte 24:
Archive::Zip::MemberRead=HASH(0x2063604)
=======================^
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Almost, but still giving an error:

Keep going?

The problem still remains, that's what I meant. Here is the code I am tying with your recommendations, any suggestions?

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Archive::Zip;
use Archive::Zip::MemberRead;

my @numberstocheck = qw(112334 999888 222333 999888 0008877 003344 122
+2334 00009 004443 999888);

my $zipfile = "test.zip";
my $zip = Archive::Zip->new( $zipfile ) || die;

my @xml = $zip->membersMatching( '.*\.XML' );

#my $xmlfile = XML::XPath->new(ioref => @xml);
 my $xmlfile = XML::XPath->new(ioerf => $xml[0]->readFileHandle );

foreach my $row ($xmlfile->findnodes('/alllist')) 
   {
      my $nodeset = $row->find('phnumbers');
      foreach my $node ( $nodeset->get_nodelist ) 
       {
         my $numbers = $node->find( 'numbers')->string_value;
         print "\n 19 - $numbers \n";
         foreach (@numberstocheck) 
                    { 
                       if (/^($numbers)/g) 
                        { 
                           print "$numbers - ".$_."\n";
                       } 
              } 
      }

   }
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That's the frustrating error:

not well-formed (invalid token) at line 1, column 24, byte 24:
Archive::Zip::MemberRead=HASH(0x2061dfc)
=======================^
 at C:/Perl/lib/XML/Parser.pm line 187
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