How to select xml root node when root node has attribute?

Question

I am trying to select all the child nodes of root node of an xml document using XPath query.

My xml file looks something like following :

Answer 1

You can use GetElementsByTagName method below are the snippet of my code

XmlDocument gazetteDocument = new XmlDocument();
gazetteDocument.Load(xmlFilePath);
XmlNodeList allNodes = gazetteDocument.GetElementsByTagName("root");