XPath wild card

Question

I have an xml which is something like

<A>
   <B>
      <C1>
          <D> some text 1 </D>
      </C1>
      <C2>
          <D> some text 2 </D>
      </C2>
   </B>
</A>

I want to use a wildcard to get the text of all D element nodes. I tried /A/B/*/D/text() but it doesnt seem to work. Help appreciated.

Answer 1

Use the // oprator. It will give you all the D elements in the document.

//D/text()