> " xml structure
> 
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <first>
>         <second> data1
>             <child att="x">data2</child>
>         </second>
> </first>
> 
> I want to fetch  the values "data1" and "data2" ."
> 
> The above is not well-formed XML because elements with child 
> elements cannot also have a text element.

Wrong. It's perfectly well-formed. This is called "mixed element content".

I don't recall the original question but you can get all the text nodes
using 
select="//text()".

Mike Kay  


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