I'd stick to attributes too if I had a choice! :) But your code is useful. Thanks. However, what if I want to do something like a wildcard search on 'v1.3' or 'v1.31' etc. ? I tried :

my $nodes = $xp->find(q{/files/file/userprop/nameprop[text()='Version'
+]/../valueprop[text()='v1.3|v1.31']/ancestor::file});
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AND

my $nodes = $xp->find(q{/files/file/userprop/nameprop[text()='Version'
+]/../valueprop[text()='v1.3*']/ancestor::file});
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Both did not work. Is it also possible to do a range search ? Like substr(text(),1,2) > 1.3 to get all version greater than 'v1.3'. Or even a date search ?