XPath select text node

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Having the following XML    lt node gt Text1 lt subnode  gt text2 lt  node gt    How do I select either the first or the second text node via XPath   Something like this    node text   2    of course doesn t work because it s the merged result of every text inside the node

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Having the following XML    lt node gt Text1 lt subnode  gt text2 lt  node gt         How do I select either the first or   the second text node via XPath    Use    node text     This selects all text-node children of the top element  named  node   of the XML document    node text   1    This selects the first text-node child of the top element  named  node   of the XML document    node text   2    This selects the second text-node child of the top element  named  node   of the XML document    node text   someInteger    This selects the someInteger-th text-node child of the top element  named  node   of the XML document  It is equivalent to the following XPath expression    node text   position     someInteger

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your xpath should work   i have tested your xpath and mine in both MarkLogic and Zorba Xquery  Xpath implementation   Both should work     node child  text   1  - should return Text1  node child  text   2  - should return text2    node text   1  - should return Text1  node text   2  - should return text2

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