Question

How can I do with XPath:

//bookstore/book/title or //bookstore/city/zipcode/title

Just //title won’t work because I also have //bookstore/magazine/title

p.s. I saw a lot of or examples but mainly with attributes or single node structure.

Answer 1

All title nodes with zipcode or book node as parent:

Version 1:

//title[parent::zipcode|parent::book]

Version 2:

//bookstore/book/title|//bookstore/city/zipcode/title

Version 3: (results are sorted based on source data rather than the order of book then zipcode)

//title[../../../*[book] or ../../../../*[city/zipcode]]

or – used within true/false – a Boolean operator in xpath

| – a Union operator in xpath that appends the query to the right of the operator to the result set from the left query.