XPath to get all child nodes (elements, comments, and text) without parent

Question

I need an XPath to fetch all ChildNodes ( including Text Element, Comment Element & Child Elements ) without Parent Element. Any help

Sample Example:

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Answer 1

Use this XPath expression:

/*/*/X/node()

This selects any node (element, text node, comment or processing instruction) that is a child of any X element that is a grand-child of the top element of the XML document.

To verify what is selected, here is this XSLT transformation that outputs exactly the selected nodes:

and it produces exactly the wanted, correct result:

   First Text Node #1            
     Y can Have Child Nodes #                
         deep to it 
                Second Text Node #2 
    

Explanation:

1. As defined in the W3 XPath 1.0 Spec, "child::node() selects all the children of the context node, whatever their node type." This means that any element, text-node, comment-node and processing-instruction node children are selected by this node-test.

2. node() is an abbreviation of child::node() (because child:: is the primary axis and is used when no axis is explicitly specified).