XPath to return string concatenation of qualifying child node values

Question

Can anyone please suggest an XPath expression format that returns a string value containing the concatenated values of certain qualifying child nodes of an element, but igno

Answer 1

If you want all children except p, you can try the following...

    string-join(//*[name() != 'p']/text(), "")

which returns...

This text node should be returned.
And the value of this element.
And this.