Question

I’m trying to understand a piece of code I should manage. I found some html manipulation in which HtmlAgilityPack is used for some node selection. Someone knows the meaning of this xpath selector?

//table/*[not(self::tr or self::tbody)]

Answer 1

In English:

Select any element node (*) such that it is not itself a tr or
tbody ([not(self::tr or self::tbody)]) and that is the child of a
table element that could appear anywhere in the document (//table).

It is equivalent to the following un-abbreviated expression

/descendant-or-self::node()/child::table/child::*[not(self::tr or self::tbody)]