[CentOS] XML, XPATH in Centos?

What built in utilities are there that can evaluate XML XPath statements in
CentOS?

Its needed to grab certain info from <a href="some.html">some</a> from a
page with a python, perl or shell script.

Hints on what to use would be appreciated.
Chris
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