Yes, the command line will work and provide me with coordinates.
I do need to take the viewbox into consideration, otherwise all is well!

Thank you guys!

Moini,
I am just looking for a "close" coordinate, the coordinates will be used to help find a component, so it is not necessary to have an
exact location for the text object.

Moini - thanks will check that out

Lazur: I just want to get a coordinate (x,y) of a point somewhere within the text object.
I am not going to use the SVG outside of inkscape - except for reading the XML to get the coordinate

I am converted some old radio schematics to digital format. I would like to be able to have a table of the different components each with the coordinates of where that component is on the schematic. ( Will be searching for the textual name of the component (ie C1 C2 -- C25 Or R1 R15 R26), and use co...

I would like to select all the text elements, and change them all to stroke .5
If I put a text such as "A" (no quotes) in the text box, it will only find text that
are A, not containing A, such as AUX.
Is there a wild card available?

(I know I can check the TEXTS only box for type)