<root>
	<head>
		<node1 attr1="Node1 Attribute">
				Node1 Value
		</node1>
	</head>
</root>

##</code><code>##

use XML::LibXML;


    $inp             = $ARGV[0];

    # create object
    my $parser = XML::LibXML->new();


    # read input XML file
    my $inp_tree = $parser->parse_file($inp);
    my $inp_root = $inp_tree->getDocumentElement;
    
    my $root_text = $inp_root->toString();
    
    $rule_source = "head/node1@attr1";
    
    my @inp_search_nodes = $inp_root->findnodes($rule_source);
                    
    my $inp_search_results = scalar @inp_search_nodes;
                                                                    
    if ( 0 == $inp_search_results )
    {
	    print "XPath $rule_source not found! \n";
                    
    }
    else
    {
        my $path_text = $inp_search_nodes[ 0 ]->findvalue(".");
        	print "Xpath ->:  $path_text\n";

        my $val = $inp_search_nodes[ 0 ]->textContent();                                          
        	print "Value of XPath $rule_source : $val \n";
    }