On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 09:23 -0700, Paul Tomsic wrote: > what would be the proper xpath to retrieve all nodes > that contain a text node? > > for instance: given the following xml: > > <foo><bar/><bar>alpha</bar><bar>beta</bar></foo> > > how would i get the bar's that contain some text? > > thanks
I haven't tried this myself, but I think you could use something like: foo/bar[self!=""] or: foo/bar[.!=""] This is just what came to my mind, I don't guarantee it will work. Joona Palaste