my $xp = XML::XPath->new( filename => $_[0] );

	my $nodeset = $xp->find('//descendant-or-self::node()[local-name(.) = dependency and not(child::version)] ');    # find all authors

	foreach my $node ( $nodeset->get_nodelist ) {
		print XML::XPath::XMLParser::as_string($node)."\n\n";
	}


##</code><code>##


<project>
  <dependency>
            <!-- find all such dependency tags -->
            <groupId>com.solarmetric</groupId>
            <artifactId>kodo-jdo-runtime</artifactId>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.jdo</groupId>
            <artifactId>jdo</artifactId>
            <version>1.0.2</version>
  </dependency>

</project>