How to select a node without attributes using xpath?

Question

Let say that I have xml like this:

<root>
    <node light="somevalue">message1</node>
    <node dark="somevalue">message2</node>
    <node>message3</node>
</root>

With xpath usage I need to get "message3".

Does anybody know how I can achieve this?

Possible duplicate of [XPath: How to select nodes which have no attributes?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1323755/xpath-how-to-select-nodes-which-have-no-attributes) — Smandoli, Dec 14 '16 at 15:05

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:13

5

I think you mean that you want to select nodes without attributes.

//node[not(@*)]

This will select all nodes that do not have attributes.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:13

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answered Aug 25 '10 at 14:40

Ryan Berger

```` doesn't work for me using stylesheets version 1.0. – Markus L Nov 03 '17 at 12:00

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 25 '10 at 14:44

4

/root/node[not(@*)]/text()

answered Aug 25 '10 at 14:44

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