Question

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

<div id="1">
    Text #1
    <p> Text #2 </p>
    Text #3
</div>

What I am confused about is, do I treat “Text #1” as the first child node, and “Text #3” as the 3rd child node, within the div with id=1? Because “Text #1” and “Text #2” are not enclosed within any HTML construct, while “Text #2” is enclosed within a “p” construct.

What will be the Xquery expression that retrieves the text “Text #3” from the expression above?

Answer 1

Apply the descendant::text() step to retrieve all text nodes and choose the third node:

(<div id="1">
    Text #1
    <p> Text #2 </p>
    Text #3
</div>//text())[3]