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Home >Online Product Documentation >Table of Contents >Wildcards in Queries Wildcards in QueriesIn a query, you can include an asterisk (*) to represent all elements. For example: This query searches for all book elements in bookstore. For each book element, this query returns all child elements that the book element contains. The * collection returns all elements that are children of the context node, regardless of their tag names. The next query finds all last-name elements that are grandchildren of book elements in the current context: The following query returns the grandchild elements of the current context. RestrictionsUsually, the asterisk (*) returns only elements. It does not return processing instructions, attributes, or comments, nor does it include attributes or comments when it maintains a count of nodes. For example, the following query returns title elements. It does not return style attributes. Wildcards in strings are not allowed. For example, you cannot define a query such as the following: AttributesTo use a wildcard for attributes, you can specify @*. For example: For each book element, this query returns all attributes. It does not return any elements. |
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