/*/Category assuming Category elements are children of the document element

or

/*/* selects the child elements of the document element

or

//Category is an inefficient search but grabs any category element, whatever 
level it is.

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"eggie5" <eggie5@g...> wrote in message 
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> All I want to do is select all the nodes under the docment root. e.g:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <Categories>
>  <Category>
>    <content_provider_id type="integer">1</content_provider_id>
>    <id type="integer">2</id>
>    <name>Traffic Alerts</name>
>  </Category>
>  <Category>
>    <content_provider_id type="integer">1</content_provider_id>
>    <id type="integer">1</id>
>    <name>News Alerts</name>
>  </Category>
>  <Category>
>    <content_provider_id type="integer">1</content_provider_id>
>    <id type="integer">3</id>
>    <name>testing category</name>
>  </Category>
> </Categories>
>
>
> What xpath would return all the Category nodes? But I don't want it to
> be specific to this xml file
>