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Sounds to me like you're looking for XPath. See XML::XPath or XML::LibXML.

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Re^2: Reading Xml files
by mirod (Canon) on Mar 02, 2006 at 15:23 UTC

    Or xml_grep2:

    xml_grep2 -l '//edman[.="Hello"]' *.xml
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