How to select node without attributes using xpath?

Question

Say I have xml:

<root>
    <node light="somevalue">message1</node>
    <node dark="somevalue">message2</node>
    <node>message3</node>
</root>

When using xpath I need to get "message3".

Does anyone know how I can achieve this?

Answer 1

I think you mean that you want to select nodes without attributes.

From XPath: how to select nodes that have no attributes?

//node[not(@*)]

This will select all nodes that do not have attributes.

Answer 2

/root/node[not(@*)]/text()