Thanks. That was it. The manual page for XML::XPath::Node::Element had most of what was needed.

I'm still puzzled about the data structures, however.

I'm getting XML::XPath::Node::Attribute=REF(0x55bcf3d63f30) instead of 'href' below. The manual page says it should return a list.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use HTML::Tidy;
use XML::XPath;

use strict;
use warnings;

my $body;
while(my $line = <DATA>) {
    $body .= $line;
}

my $tidy = HTML::Tidy->new({output_xml => 1,numeric_entities=>1});
my $clean = $tidy->clean($body);
my $parser =  XML::XPath->new(xml => $clean);

my $set = '//p/a';
my $nodes = $parser->find($set);

foreach my $node ($nodes->get_nodelist) {
    print "\n";
    print $node->getName(),"\n";
    # this next line is wrong
    print join(", ", $node->getAttributeNodes),"\n";
}

exit(0);

__DATA__ 


<!doctype html>
<html class="no-focus-outline no-js " lang="en-US" 
    data-modal-active="true">
<head>
 <title>test</title>
</head>
<body>
 <h1>test&nbsp;heading</h1>
 <div>
<p>paragraph one
 <a href="https://example.com/one/two.html">one</a> example.</p>
<p>paragraph two
 <a href="https://example.com/two/three.html">another</a> example.</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>

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In reply to Re^2: Data structure question from XML::XPath::XMLParser by mldvx4
in thread Data structure question from XML::XPath::XMLParser by mldvx4

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