Question

Consider following XML document fragment:

<Book>
<Title>Example</Title>
<Content>
Some line
</Content>
<TOC>
Again some line
</TOC>
</Book>

Consider following Xpath expression:
*[not(self)::TOC]
What would be result of if current node is Book?

Answer 1

I think *[not(self)::TOC] is not syntactically correct so you would get a syntax error.

You might want *[not(self::TOC)] instead which would select all child elements of the Book element that are not TOC elements so in your sample the Title element and the Content element.