gistfile1.txt

scala> val xml = <people>
     | <person>
     | <name>Ara</name>
     | </person>
     | <person>
     | <name>Marcel</name>
     | </person>
     | </people>
xml: scala.xml.Elem = 
<people>
       <person>
       <name>Ara</name>
       </person>
       <person>
       <name>Marcel</name>
       </person>
       </people>

scala> xml \ "person" \ "name"
res0: scala.xml.NodeSeq = <name>Ara</name><name>Marcel</name>

scala> (xml \ "person" \ "name").map(_.text)
res1: Seq[String] = ArrayBufferRO(Ara, Marcel)