Question

I have the following XML –

<title type="text/html">First part of string</title>
<content type="text/html"><p>And Second part of string</p> </content>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.FooBar.com"/>

And have used the following script in XPath –

use XML::XPath;
use XML::XPath::XMLParser;

my $file = 'MY.xml';
my $xp = XML::XPath->new(filename=>$file);

my $body = $xp->findvalue('entry/activity:object/content');
print "$body\n";
my $title = $xp->findvalue('entry/activity:object/title');
print "$title\n";

Which returns –

First part of string And Second part of string

I also need it to output the –

http://www.FooBar.com

I tried adding –

my $URL = $xp->findvalue('entry/activity:object/link');
print "$URL\n";

But this did not output anything.

How can I edit my script to include the URL string?

Answer 1

The href value is an attribute of the link element, so use:

<path>/link/@href