The property tree library looks like a very good way for me to remove the tinyxpath and tinyxml dependencies in my project. However, I am confused by one usage pattern. I have a lot of properties like the following: <top> <struct1 name="bla"> <stuff> data specific to struct1 </stuff> <struct1/> <struct1 name="bla2"> <stuff> data specific to struct1 </stuff> <struct1/> <struct2 name="bla3"> <stuff2>data specific to struct2 </stuff2> <struct1/> </top> I need to be able to get the tree given the name. In xpath I would go something like: ""/top/struct1[@name='bla']/stuff" to get at that information. I realize I could embed a <name> underneath the struct1 in xpath as well, but how do I get back to the siblings? Any ideas on how best to use property tree for this kind of pattern? Thanks, Jesse