use XML::DOM; my $xml =<
Trial IDMooza
Trial IDbin_salim99
Trial IDdino88
Trial IDal3neeeeed
TrialIDDo0oDa
EOXML my $parser = new XML::DOM::Parser; my $doc = $parser->parse($xml); my $root = $doc->getDocumentElement(); foreach my $detail (@{$root->getChildNodes()}) { my $name_el = $detail->getElementsByTagName('name')->[0]; my $name = $name_el->getFirstChild(); if ($name->toString() =~ /Mooza/) { my $new = $doc->createTextNode('Foobar'); $name_el->replaceChild($new, $name); } elsif ( $name->toString() =~ /Do0oDa/ ) { $root->removeChild($detail); } } my $newdet = $doc->createElement('Details'); my $new_id = $doc->createElement('id'); my $new_id_val = $doc->createTextNode('Test ID'); $new_id->appendChild($new_id_val); $newdet->appendChild($new_id); my $new_name = $doc->createElement('name'); my $new_name_val = $doc->createTextNode('Yargle'); $new_name->appendChild($new_name_val); $newdet->appendChild($new_name); $root->appendChild($newdet); print $doc->toString();