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Didn't have a chance to test your example, but I think this is the problem:

$rule_source = "head/node1@attr1";
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Perl thinks you want to insert the contents of an array called @attr1 into the string because you used double quotes. Since there is no such array your $rule_source ends up with just "head/node1". Either escape the '@' or use a single quoted string as in the examples below:

$rule_source = "head/node1\@attr1";
# or
$rule_source = 'head/node1@attr1';
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In reply to Re^3: XPath with node names and attributes... by thunders
in thread XPath with node names and attributes... by biswanath_c

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