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Fantastic answer! thanks! &nbsp; A+++++
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This is my XML test text:<br />
&quot;&lt;memo author=&quot;Pat Coleman&quot;&gt;&lt;to&gt;Carole Poland&lt;/to&gt;&lt;/memo&gt;&quot;<br />
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How can I get with XPath/XML DOM a node-set containing all the element and attribute nodes?<br />
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is &nbsp; $obj.selectNodes('//@*|//*<wbr />') &nbsp; the shortest/most efficient solution?
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This is my XML test text:
"<memo author="Pat Coleman"><to>Carole Poland</to></memo>"

How can I get with XPath/XML DOM a node-set containing all the element and attribute nodes?

is   $obj.selectNodes('//@*|//*')   the shortest/most efficient solution?

XPath for extracting all the element+attribute nodes

Extensible Markup Language (XML) refers to the encoding of documents such that they can be read by both machines and humans. XML documents use tags to show the beginning and end of a set of data. XML is used extensively on websites to show volumes of data, and is the default for a number of office productivity suites. This topic includes discussions of XML-related technologies, such as XQuery (the XML Query language), XPath (the XML Path language), XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations), XLink (the XML Linking language) and XPointer (the XML Pointer language).