How to get the content of a tag with XPath?

Question

I have the following XML-file:

<ns1:book> <ns1:title>Harry Potter</ns1:title> <ns1:author>Rowling</ns1:author> </ns1:book>  

With the help of XPath-query I want to get only content of teg <title> , here it is Harry Potter (not <ns1:title>Harry Potter</ns1:title> ). How can I do this? Is there any function for it?

Answer 1

Use /text() after you have located an element.

Like: //*[name()='ns1:title']/text()

See the example here ..

Answer 2

Another syntax (not sure every XPath processor supports it though):

//*:title/text()