Xpath: select node based in a condition (with local-name())

Question

The question is quite silly, but I am completely stuck. I want to extract child nodes of a node based on a condition. The XML is as follows:

Answer 1

Try this

/a/aCode[text()='aaa']

or

//*[local-name() = 'aCode' and text() = 'aaa']

You have used // at wrong place.