How to select all child nodes except text nodes?

Question

Given XML that looks something like this

 <FirstChild Orientation="Vertical">
    <SecondChild>Some text</SecondChild>
 </FirstChild>

and a binding that is using

XPath="child::node()"

I get output that looks like this

I don't want the text to appear in the tree

I tried using not like

XPath="child::node()[not(text())]"

as well as many variations, but haven't been able to nail it.

Anyone know how select all nodes except text nodes?

BTW, I do not want to exclude comments, only text.

Answer 1

Your XPath expression excludes all child nodes which contain a text node.

child::node()[not(text())]

Exclude nodes that are a text node themselves:

child::node()[not(self::text())]