G'day anadem,

You appear to have gotten close. You give the impression that you were just trying all the variations you could think of: one more and you probably would have been there. However, that's not a very efficient way to code: it's better to understand what you're doing than continually throwing pieces of code at a problem until one of them turns out to be right.

Here's the latest "W3C XPath" documentation. The "Path Expressions" section has full details but I usually find that just the "Abbreviated Syntax" subsection suffices in most cases.

In your first code fragment you needed this path for findnodes(): 

'//matrix/vm[@type="br"]'

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Had you done that, I believe you would have got what you wanted.

All of your attempts had either the findnodes() or the findvalue() path right but the other one wrong.

The XML::LibXML documentation should help you with your outstanding tasks.

-- Ken

In reply to Re: xpath problem using XML::LibXML by kcott
in thread xpath problem using XML::LibXML by anadem

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