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Answer 1

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Use the union operator "|":

descendant-or-self::link|/*/comment()

This will return the text of the comment, which cannot be used for further parsing even though it contains markup-like text. It's just a string so you'll have to treat it like one.

alanstroop 2010-10-08 04:43:42

Answer 2

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In XPath 1.0, with proper XHTML:

/xhtml:html/xhtml:head/xhtml:link|
/xhtml:html/xhtml:head/comment()[contains(.,'link')]

With a DOM provider that it doesn't handle namespaces:

/html/head/link|
/html/head/comment()[contains(.,'link')]

Also:

/html/head/node()[self::link or self::comment()[contains(.,'link')]]

Alejandro 2010-10-08 14:22:54

Ok, will I be able to treat it as a normal node or does it just return a text value?

Franky Chanyau 2010-10-08 23:38:56

@Franky Chanyau: It returns two `link` elements and one comment node. Then you could manipulate the comment string value.

Alejandro 2010-10-09 19:40:11

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