& XSLT LibXML has the findnodes method.

You could do something like
$Things_node-> findnodes("descendant::Object[\@Class='Pens']");

Thats probably what you're looking for?

Merijn

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joseph C. Bautista" <Joseph.Bautista@[...].com> 
To: "perl-xml" <perl-xml@[...].com> 
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 1:02 PM
Subject: Getting XML Nodes based on attributes value


>  Hi All,
> 
>      I was wondering if there's a module that i can used to get only the
>  nodes in an XML file based on the attributes value?
> 
>     Example XML is:
> 
>      <Things>
>         <Object Class="Pens" Location="Room">
>               <p name="length">4<\p>
>               <p name="thickness">.5</p>
>               <p name="color">yellow</p>
>         </Object>
>         <Object Class="Papers" Location="Room">
>               <p name="length">9<\p>
>               <p name="thickness">2</p>
>               <p name="color">yellow</p>
>         </Object>
>         <Object Class="Pens" Location="Sala">
>               <p name="length">4<\p>
>               <p name="thickness">.5</p>
>               <p name="color">Black</p>
>         </Object>
>         <Object Class="Papers" Location="Sala">
>               <p name="length">9<\p>
>               <p name="thickness">3</p>
>               <p name="color">white</p>
>         </Object>
>     </Things>
> 
>      If I want to retrieve only the objects with class "Pens" then i
>  would just execute something like
> 
>            $xml->node("Object", "Class" => "Pens")
> 
>      and the module(s) will give me a hashref with two values. All
>  objects, including its parameters, with class "pens" (1 in "Sala" and 1
>  in "Room")?
> 
> 
>      Thanks...
> 
>  Br,
>  Joseph
> 
> 
> 
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