How to get the text of an XPath node

Hello. I'm having an issue returning an XPath value. The statement runs and I see the 4 nodes returned but when I try to get the "Text()" value for them. Nothing returns. Can you please let me know why the syntax is failing?  

This works:  
/w:document/w:body[1]/w:tbl[1]/w:tr[1]/w:tc/*[1]

This does not work:
/w:document/w:body[1]/w:tbl[1]/w:tr[1]/w:tc/*[1][attribute::text()]
nor this
/w:document/w:body[1]/w:tbl[1]/w:tr[1]/w:tc/*[1].text()
nor this
/w:document/w:body[1]/w:tbl[1]/w:tr[1]/w:tc/*[1].HtmlText()
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