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<node id="1005154" title="Re^2: Finding max value from a unique tag from XML" created="2012-11-22 11:08:56" updated="2012-11-22 11:08:56">
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tobyink</author>
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&lt;p&gt;That's more XPath wizardry than I'd normally manage. FWIW, here's the translation of the above to plain old XML::LibXML:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;code&gt;
use 5.010;
use XML::LibXML 1.70;

my $xml = XML::LibXML-&gt;load_xml(location =&gt; "1.xml");

say $xml-&gt;findnodes(q{
	//doc/str[@name="docuid" and not(text() &lt; //doc/str[@name="docuid"]/text())]
});
&lt;/code&gt;
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