Question

Given below is some HTML code corresponding to a div in a web page–

<div id="1">
    Text #1
    <p> Text #2 </p>
   <img src="test.jpg" />
    Text #3
    <a href="http://google.com"> Text #4 </a>
    <a href="http://www.bing.com"><img src="bing.jpg" /> </a>
    Text #5
</div>

What will be the Xquery expression that retrieves the text

Text #1 Text #2 Text #3 Text #4 Text #5

from the expression above? The sequence in which links/images occur within the main div may differ, I just want to extract the text matter within that div…

Answer 1

Try

/data()

and change the path step (here: only root) as needed. data() recursively returns all contents within a tag.