XPATH

<PEOPLE>
<PERSON ID=12345>
<NAME>Joe Smith</NAME>
<ADDRESS>
<STREET1234 Main Street</STREET>
<CITY>Anytown</CITY>
<STATE>IL</STATE>
<ZIP>60606</ZIP>
</ADDRESS>
</PERSON>
</PEOPLE>

PERSON or //PERSON	Any element named "PERSON"
/PEOPLE	Elements named "PEOPLE" that are children of the root node.
PERSON/NAME	Elements named "NAME" that are children of the element named "PERSON".
/PEOPLE/PERSON	Elements named "PEOPLE" that are children of the element named "PEOPLE" which is a child of the root element.
PEOPLE//NAME	Elements named "NAME" that have the element "PEOPLE" as an ancestor.
*PEOPLE//NAME**	Elements named "NAME" that have the element "PEOPLE" as an grandparent (Parent of its parent).
PERSON[NAME]	Elements named "PERSON" that have a child the element named "NAME".

The ROOT node contains the entire XML document.
In XPATH, the ROOT node is designated as a slash /.
The ROOT node does not have a PARENT node.
The ROOT node has child nodes. One is the document element.
The ROOT node can also have comments and processing instructions as child elements.

There is an xpath ELEMENT for every element in the XML document.
An ELEMENT node's children include:
- text nodes
- element nodes
- comment nodes
- processing instructions
- text nodes

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