well, i figured out a way to perform tests on more than one child node, but it ain't pretty. i'd stick with attributes.

update: updated the path to suck less. i learned a decent amount about xpath by doing this! :) 

#!perl -l

use strict;
use warnings;
use XML::XPath;

my $xp = XML::XPath->new("xml" => do { undef $/; <DATA> });
my $path = q{//userprop[nameprop='Version' and valueprop='v1.3']/ances
+tor::file};
my $nodes = $xp->find($path);

for my $node ($nodes->get_nodelist) {
        print XML::XPath::XMLParser::as_string($node);
}

__DATA__
<files>
<file>
<name>test.doc</name>
<userprop>
  <valueprop>v1.3</valueprop>
  <nameprop>Version</nameprop>
</userprop>
</file>
<file>
<name>test.doc</name>
<userprop>
  <nameprop>Version</nameprop>
  <valueprop>v1.4</valueprop>
</userprop>
</file>
</files>

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In reply to Re: XPath search qn by pizza_milkshake
in thread XPath search qn by Justudo

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