Thank you. I tried that. The returned output is again, as before, a syntax error:

error in xpath expression //OverallConnectionPoolStatus/FlowRater/Name
+/text() ar
ound text()  at D:\Scripts\prun84\test3.pl line 27
 at D:\Scripts\prun84\test3.pl line 8
 at D:\Scripts\prun84\test3.pl line 8
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You said it won't do much, but it shouldn't crash with an error if the expression will return nothing! I think there is a problem somehow with loading the XML::Twig::XPath module, somehow I believe I still using the XML::Twig engine. Can it be ? Just to make sure I attach the full program:

use XML::Twig::XPath;

my $t = XML::Twig::XPath->new( twig_roots   => 
        { 
            'BalancerStatus/WebServer/OverallConnectionPoolStatus' => 
+\&section,
            #'BalancerStatus/WebServer/BalancerStatus/Server' => \&sec
+tion
        }); 
$t->parsefile( 'localhost.xml');

#
sub section {
    my ($t, $section) = @_;
    my $a = $section->get_xpath( q{//OverallConnectionPoolStatus/FlowR
+ater/Name/text()} );
        
    $t->purge;
}
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