Reading the tutorial for property_tree, using the functions ptree.find, ptree.get and ptree.get_child, they will only return the topmost node, so if I had two different children nodes under my root named '<Logistics>' with different data within the children, I would only be able to access the first one. So my question is that how would I go about navigating to each top node under my root when they are all named the same? I basicly will have a file that looks something like this: XML file contents: <Technologies> <Logistics ID="Damage Diagnostics"> <DisplayName>Damage Diagnostics</DisplayName> <Cost>1500</Cost> <Description>Increases repair ability by 10%</Description> <RepairAbility>10</RepairAbility> <Requires>Advanced Starship Repair</Requires> <Category>Logistics</Category> <Model>lrgbuilding0</Model> <AIValue>30</AIValue> </Logistics> <Logistics ID="Basic Self-Repair"> /* I need to access this node */ <DisplayName>Basic Self-Repair</DisplayName> <Cost>3000</Cost> <Description>Increases repair ability by 10%</Description> <RepairAbility>10</RepairAbility> <Requires>Damage Diagnostics</Requires> <Category>Logistics</Category> <Model>controlgrav0</Model> <AIValue>40</AIValue> </Logistics> </Technologies> I will have a very large number of nodes with the same name under my root, but each will have different data in their children that I need to access. A full DOM parser is too much overhead when I do not need any validation, but rather I need to read a large number of configuration data across XML files. I really like the ease of use of this library, but I just can't figure this out. Any help would be greatly appreciated.