Constructing the Node-Test Portion of a Location Step

The node-test portion of a location step identifies the type of node(s), or the specific node(s), which make up the baseline collection of nodes from which to gather possible matches. It takes three possible forms:

• Use a node name to select nodes with that name.
• Use a node type, followed by empty parentheses, (), to select nodes of that type. The following node types are available:
  • comment() selects element nodes;
  • text() selects attribute nodes;
  • processing-instruction() selects processing instruction nodes;
  • and node() selects nodes of any kind.
• Use processing-instruction("target") to select processing instructions with a particular target.