Perl

XML GetChildWithAttr

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Demonstrates how to get the content of a particular node with a particular attribute. For example, returns "Face up in the Rain" for the Name="Album" node.

 <Response Status="OK">
   <Item Name="ZoneID">0</Item>
   <Item Name="State">2</Item>
   <Item Name="FileKey">305718</Item>
   <Item Name="Artist">Michael Tomlinson</Item>
   <Item Name="Album">Face Up in the Rain</Item>
   <Item Name="Name">The Way We're Going</Item>
   <Item Name="Status">Playing</Item>
</Response> 

Chilkat2 Perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

my $xml = Chilkat2::Xml->new;

my $success = $xml->LoadXmlFile('qa_data/resp.xml');
if (!$success) {
    print $xml->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

my $xItem = $xml->GetChildWithAttr('Item', 'Name', 'Album');
if (!$xml->LastMethodSuccess) {
    print "not found.\n";
    exit;
}

print $xItem->Content, "\n";