Its even easier :) 

my @xpaths = qw{
/html/body/p/a
/html/body/p[2]/a 
/html/body/p[3]/a
....
/html/body/p[66]/a
};
my $allXpaths = join ' | ', @xpaths;
my @values = $tree->findvalues;

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I don't know about other xpath interpreters, but treebuilder::xpath (and xsh ) allows this

This query is probably faster 

/html/body/p[
position()=1
or  position()=2
or  position()=3
or  position()=66
]/a

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Or this one 

/html/body/p[
(
  (
    position() > 0
    and position() < 4
  )
  or
  (
    position()=66
  )
)
]/a

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Though this one won't work with your html  //a[ position()=4] because each //a is at  //a[ position() = 1] because each //a is the only (first) child of its parent ( p ) --- I guess now I know how position() works

In reply to Re^2: Help with xpath and TreeBuilder by Anonymous Monk
in thread Help with xpath and TreeBuilder by danny0085

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