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in reply to Re: Need XMLTwig help
in thread Need XMLTwig help

Being not the XPath expert, poj's post (++) animated to reduce my solution to the following:

#!/usr/bin/env perl use 5.010; use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; use local::lib 'lib'; use XML::Twig; my $string = <<EOF; <Person name="Brian"> <Phones> <Phone name="cell" number="5551112233" /> <Phone name="cell" number="5557778899" /> <Phone name="home" number="5554441122" /> </Phones> </Person> EOF my $twig = XML::Twig->new; $twig->parse($string); my @nodes = $twig->findnodes('/Person/Phones/Phone[@name="cell"]'); my @cellphones_nrs = map { $_->att('number') } @nodes; say "Cellphone: $cellphones_nrs[-1]" if @cellphones_nrs;

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