xpath select all nodes under document root

[eggie5]

All I want to do is select all the nodes under the docment root. e.g:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Categories>
<Category>
<content_provider_id type="integer">1</content_provider_id>
<id type="integer">2</id>
<name>Traffic Alerts</name>
</Category>
<Category>
<content_provider_id type="integer">1</content_provider_id>
<id type="integer">1</id>
<name>News Alerts</name>
</Category>
<Category>
<content_provider_id type="integer">1</content_provider_id>
<id type="integer">3</id>
<name>testing category</name>
</Category>
</Categories>


What xpath would return all the Category nodes? But I don't want it to
be specific to this xml file.

 

[Joseph Kesselman]

All I want to do is select all the nodes under the docment root

Um.... Do you mean anywhere in the tree ("//Category"), or all that are
under the top-level element whatever it happens to be ("/*/Category"),
or all second-level nodes ("/*/*"), or...?