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in reply to hi i want to retrieve the element and values from xml document

Using xsh, a wrapper around XML::LibXML: 
open file.xml ;
for //text() {
    if xsh:matches(., '\S')
        echo concat(name(..), ':') (.) ;
}

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Outputs:
Date: 2003/07/04
CustomerId: 123
CustomerName: Acme Alpha
ItemId:  987
ItemName: Coupler
Quantity: 5
ItemId: 579
ItemName: Clasp
Quantity: 1

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