Rendered by the Chatterbox XML Ticker is "this proxy" that you mentioned relatively new? is that a problem? oh, sorry. yes, looks like [merlyn|he] is having a problem. #### #!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use XML::XPath; use XML::XPath::XMLParser; my $xp = XML::XPath->new(filename => 'pm.xml'); my $nodeset = $xp->find('//@author'); # find all authors foreach my $node ($nodeset->get_nodelist) { print XML::XPath::XMLParser::as_string($node), "\n\n"; } #### C:\Perl\bin>perl test.pl author="tye" author="jdporter" author="jdporter" C:\Perl\bin>