XML::LibXML

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Low level library, Perl binding to libxml2 supports the standard
XML processing mode called Document Object Mode (DOM).

examples/xml/libxml.pl

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

use XML::LibXML;

my $parser = XML::LibXML->new;
my $doc = $parser->parse_file('examples/data.xml');
print $doc;

process_node( $doc->getDocumentElement, 0);

sub process_node {
    my ($node, $depth) = @_;
    print "$node\n";
    return unless( $node->nodeType eq &XML_ELEMENT_NODE );
    print "  " x $depth, $node->nodeName, "\n";
    foreach my $child ( $node->getChildnodes ) {
        process_node( $child, $depth+1 );
    }
}

Other Node types (taken from the source code)

XML_COMMENT_NODE
XML_TEXT_NODE
XML_CDATA_SECTION_NODE
XML_ELEMENT_NODE
XML_ENTITY_REF_NODE
XML_DOCUMENT_NODE
XML_HTML_DOCUMENT_NODE
XML_DOCUMENT_FRAG_NODE
XML_PI_NODE
XML_XINCLUDE_START
XML_XINCLUDE_END
XML_DTD_NODE