* Phantom wrote in comp.text.xml:
>I need to write an xpath query string that returns one or more specific 
>elements on the fly, in this example, apple and/or orange. *this* works 
>for JUST apple:
>
>select xpath_eval('//apple', 

So use `//apple | //orange`.

>Both the source and the match value are coming in at run time, so a 
>series of OR clauses in the predicate won't work:
>
>noGoExample: [local-name()="apple" or [local-name()="orange"]

Well here you have more [ than ] which usually is a syntax error. Use

  //*[local-name() = 'apple' or local-name() = 'orange']

>I KNOW there's a simple representation for this, but just try looking 
>for it online when you don't know what you're looking for. like looking 
>for a word in the dictionary you don't know how to spell.

http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath has many examples, and contains everything
there is to know about XPath 1.0.
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