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  amp  Child Elements   without Parent Element  Any help  Sample Example    lt DOC gt   lt PRESENTEDIN gt       lt X gt          First Text Node  1           lt y gt  Y can Have Child Nodes                 lt child gt  deep to it  lt  child gt             lt  y gt           Second Text Node  2  lt z  gt        lt  X gt       lt EVTS gt           lt evt  gt           lt evt gt               lt mtg descr gt  SAE 2006 World Congress  amp amp  Exhibition  lt  mtg descr gt               lt sess descr gt  Advanced Hybrid Vehicle Powertrains  Part 1 of 5   lt  sess descr gt               lt loc gt  Detroit MI United States  lt  loc gt               lt sess prod grp cd gt  TSESS  lt  sess prod grp cd gt               lt sess evt name gt  P13  lt  sess evt name gt               lt sess gen num gt  138352  lt  sess gen num gt               lt mtg start dt gt  04 03 2006  lt  mtg start dt gt               lt mtg end dt gt  04 06 2006  lt  mtg end dt gt               lt desig gt  CONGRESS-2006  lt  desig gt           lt  evt gt       lt  EVTS gt       lt EVTTYPE gt PAPER lt  EVTTYPE gt       lt SUPERTECH gt           lt   CDATA C8585   gt       lt  SUPERTECH gt   lt  PRESENTEDIN gt      XPATH TRIED     1   doc PRESENTEDIN X    2   doc PRESENTEDIN X descendant       2   doc PRESENTEDIN X self      EXPECTED OUTPUT      First Text Node  1       lt y gt  Y can Have Child Nodes             lt child gt  deep to it  lt  child gt         lt  y gt       Second Text Node  2  lt z  gt     I DON T WANT   lt X gt    First Text Node  1           lt y gt  Y can Have Child Nodes                 lt child gt  deep to it  lt  child gt             lt  y gt           Second Text Node  2  lt z  gt    lt  X gt

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From the documentation of XPath   http   www w3 org TR xpath  location-paths        child    selects all element   children of the context node       child  text   selects all text node   children of the context node       child  node   selects all the   children of the context node  whatever   their node type   So I guess your answer is    doc PRESENTEDIN X child  node     And if you want a flatten array of all nested nodes    doc PRESENTEDIN X descendant  node

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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    lt xsl stylesheet version  1 0   xmlns xsl  http   www w3 org 1999 XSL Transform  gt    lt xsl output omit-xml-declaration  yes   gt    lt xsl template match     gt     lt xsl copy-of select       X node     gt    lt  xsl template gt   lt  xsl stylesheet gt    and it produces exactly the wanted  correct result      First Text Node  1                  lt y gt  Y can Have Child Nodes                            lt child gt  deep to it  lt  child gt       lt  y gt             Second Text Node  2       lt z   gt    Explanation    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  node   is an abbreviation of child  node    because child   is the primary axis and is used when no axis is explicitly specified

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

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