use Test; BEGIN { plan tests => 5 } use XML::XPath; my $doc_one = qq|para one|; my $xp = XML::XPath->new(xml => $doc_one); ok($xp); my $doc_one_chars = $xp->find('string-length(/doc/text())'); ok($doc_one_chars == 0, 1); my $doc_two = qq| para one has bold text |; $xp = undef; $xp = XML::XPath->new(xml => $doc_two); ok($xp); my $doc_two_chars = $xp->find('string-length(/doc/text())'); ok($doc_two_chars == 3, 1); my $doc_two_para_chars = $xp->find('string-length(/doc/para/text())'); ok($doc_two_para_chars == 13, 1);