Having this (simplified) XML:
Pol
Use:
/*/*/Placemark/name | /*/*/Placemark/*/coordinates
This specifies the union of the results of two separate XPath expressions -- the standard XPath union operator |
is used. Selected are all name
elements that are children of a Placemark
element that is a grandchild of the top element of the XML document, plus all coordinates
elements that are grand-children of a Placemark
element that is a grandchild of the top element of the XML document.
The selected elements come in document order (although no normative W3C document specifies the order), which means that in the result of the evaluation (usually of type XmlNodeList) any name
element is directly followed by its corresponding coordinates
element.
You can use a union in your XPath expression. Just use the operator: |
//Document/Placemark/name | //Document/Placemark/Polygon/coordinates
Don't use the //
(descendant axis) if you don't need to. Using //
, this would also work: //name | //coordinates
. It's better performance-wise to specify the exact path.
Resolved: //Placemark/*[self::name or descendant::coordinates]