Determine Patch Level without opatch

Does anyone know of a way to query the oracle inventory xml file to determine the oracle patch level without using opatch?
I have a number of servers to check and not all of them have perl installed.
Also which xml file does opatch use?
the command 'opatch lsinventory -detail' gives one entry for the installed patches whereas 'opatch lsinventory' lists all the inventory.
There must be someway to grep one of the xml files to obtain the installed patches?
Which file and where in the xml file is it?
Cheers,
Jas

In $ORACLE_HOME/inventory/ContentsXML/comps.xml, all the information related to oneoffs installed is kept. Infact OPatch reads this infor and reports during lsinventory.
But it is recommended to handle this file very carefully, if this file is damaged, then its almost that your home is gone, coz....no update can be done without proper inventory.

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source id                     0.144
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   SAP NetWeaver and complementary products"
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