Part 2 of Step Patterns: Node Tests
The second part of a step pattern is made up of node tests. You can use names of nodes as node tests, or the wild card * to select element nodes as well as node types. For example, the expression child::*/child::NAME selects all <NAME> elements that are grandchildren of the context node.
In addition to node names and the wild card character, you also can use the following node tests:
The comment() node test selects comment nodes.
The node() node test selects any type of node.
The processing-instruction() node test selects a processing instruction node. You can specify the name of the processing instruction to select in the parentheses.
The text() node test selects a text node.
The following sections examine these ...
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