Re: XPath: how to select based on element type?

[Matt Sergeant <matt@sergeant.org>]

On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Sankaranarayanan K V wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am fairly new to XPath and XML schema.
> I have a couple of newbie questions:
>
> (1) Is there a way a in XPath to select nodes based on their element type?

Element type is not a term I recognise. Perhaps you either mean node type
or element name. Either way:

//comment() (select all comments)
//text() (select all text nodes)
//* (select all elements)
//processing-instruction() (select all PI's)

And if you mean element name:

//*[name() = 'foo' or name() = 'bar']

Hope that helps.

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