XPath to get all child elements except one with specific name?

Question

How do I target all elements in a document except a particular element name?

For example I want to exclude the terminate elements. They can

Answer 1

If you are using XPath 2.0 you can use

/root/* except /root/terminate

Which does what you would expect. It matches for nodes that exist in the first sequence but not the second.

XPath 2.0 Specification - except operator