Excellent!   Thanks for the notes - I was able to read the XPath documentation and found how to reference the "time=" attribute in each <time_of_last_rate_dp> element:<div>    $xp->findvalue('/collection_status/check_starttime/@time');<div>

<br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>DanL</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/6/6 Christopher Cashell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:topher-pm@zyp.org">topher-pm@zyp.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">

<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 11:18 PM, Christopher Cashell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:topher-pm@zyp.org" target="_blank">topher-pm@zyp.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">



<font face="'courier new', monospace"># Now we'll try to pull back our instance times<br>my $nodeset = $xp->find('/collection_status/instance/time_of_last_rate_dp');<br></font></blockquote><div><br>



</div></div><div>Also, I just realized that this line could likely be safely shortened/simplified to:</div><div><div><br></div><div><font face="'courier new', monospace">my $nodeset = $xp->find('//time_of_last_rate_dp');</font></div>



</div><div> </div></div>-- <br><font color="#888888">Christopher<br>
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