I edited it to load file from my cwd. It seems still interrupting empty node: Code: 
#! /usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use feature qw{ say };
use warnings;

use XML::LibXML;

print "Please specify node c content: ";
chomp( my $new_text = <STDIN> );
my $file = 'xx.xml';
my $dom = 'XML::LibXML'->load_xml(location => $file);
for my $node($dom->findnodes('(/header/id/c)')) {
    $node->removeChildNodes;
    $node->appendText($new_text);
}
#print $dom;
open (my $Output, "> $file") or die "Could not write $file";
print $Output $dom->toString();
close ($Output) or die "Could not close generated $file ";

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Output: 
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<header>
   <id x_id="1">
      <a/>
      <b/>
      <c>as</c>
   </id>
</header>

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Expecting output: 
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<header>
   <id x_id="1">
      <a></a>
      <b></c>
      <c>something</c>
   </id>
</header>

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In reply to Re^3: XML replacenode by michael99
in thread XML replacenode by michael99

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