I am trying to find tags in an xml file which do not have a particular child. I am using the following code but it gives me an error Use of uninitialized value $local in substitution (s///) at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/XML/XPath/Node/Element.pm line 138. 



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";
    }

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A snippet of xml file is given below 

<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>

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In reply to xpath query by mojo-jojo

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