Thanks for the code. The problem with using this is that the XML file I am working on is 300 mb and highly nested. Each child has diffrent levels of nesting. The if else would be tedious to use. My other question What if I had nested children within nested children? What would be the most efficient to do it? For example how do I access the elements of elt for each C? My 2nd question is about how I could display these elements like 
  The book of pages|Snap|Line1|Line2|Line3|Line4|Line5|C1.X|
  The book of pages|Snap|Line1|Line2|Line3|Line4|Line5|C1.Y|
  The book of pages|Snap|Line1|Line2|Line3|Line4|Line5|C2.X|
  The book of pages|Snap|Line1|Line2|Line3|Line4|Line5|C2.Y|
  The book of pages|Snap|Line1|Line2|Line3|Line4|Line5|C3.X|
  The book of pages|Snap|Line1|Line2|Line3|Line4|Line5|C3.Y|
  .
  .
  .
  .
  .
  The song|Snap|Line1|Line2|Line3|Line4|Line5|C2.X|
  The song|Snap|Line1|Line2|Line3|Line4|Line5|C2.Y|
  Example 
    <Rating>
      <C1>
        <elt>
         <X></X>
         <X></X>
         </elt>
        <elt>
        <elt>
      </C1>
      <C2>
        <elt>
        <elt>
        <elt>
      </C2>
      <C3>
        <elt>
        <elt>
        <elt>
      </C3>
     </Rating>

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Is there another XML module that can be more helpful than XML::Twig for this purpose?

In reply to Re^2: how to display descendants in XML with Perl's XML::Twig by Ppeoc
in thread how to display descendants in XML with Perl's XML::Twig by Ppeoc

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