& XSLT Hello,

I'm new to proper XML parsing (read: not a one-off regex) - I've gone  
through the XPath tutorial on w3schools.com, but have a question in  
regards to usage of XML::XPath in particular

say that this is my xml file which I'd like to parse:


<CompanyData> 
<Owner> Joe Smith</Owner>
<Data> 
	<DataList> 
		<Id> first</Id>
		<DataListElement1>  first_element_1 </DataListElement1>
		<DataListElement2>  ... </DataListElement2>
		<DataListElement3>  ... </DataListElement3>
	</DataList> 
	<DataList> 
		<Id> second</Id>
		<DataListElement1>  second_element_1 </DataListElement1>
		<DataListElement2>  ... </DataListElement2>
		<DataListElement3>  ... </DataListElement3>
	</DataList> 
	<DataList> 
		<Id> third</Id>
		<DataListElement1>  ... </DataListElement1>
		<DataListElement2>  ... </DataListElement2>
		<DataListElement3>  ... </DataListElement3>
	</DataList> 
</Data> 
</CompanyData> 

What I'd like to do, is get all this stuff into a hash like this one:

$DataList{first} = ("first_element1", "...", "...");

Or perhaps a hash of hashes...

I would think that I could do this with a series of for loops, but  
what confuses me a bit, is the type of object returned when I specify  
the paths I'm interested in:

my @DataLists = $xp-> findnodes("/CompanyData/Data/Datalist);

Here, @nodeset is a XML::XPath::Node::Element, whereas I'd ideally  
like for it to be an XML::XPath object to where I could run through  
several more for loops via path declaration.

All that said, I could certainly be missing something in the usage of  
XML::Path::Node::Element, but it seems that the way I'd want to use  
it would be to run through a similar set of for loops:

foreach $DataList (@DataLists)
{
	foreach $child ($DataList-> getChildNodes)
	{
		...
	}
}

getChildNodes however returns just an array, not an array of  
XML::XPath::Node::Element objects, further limiting what I can do  
(seemingly).

I would be more than happy to hear that I'm using XML::XPath in a  
horribly wrong way, or be pointed to some examples of its uses in  
these sorts of nested data structures - the documentation mentions  
that there're examples in "/t", but I don't know what, or where that  
might be...

any help greatly appreciated!!
-lev


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