Running XPath on child node

/foo will select based off of the root node, ignoring the context that you are evaluating the xpath against. foo (without the slash) is what you want; that selects based off of the current node.

https://www.w3schools.com/xml/xpath_syntax.asp gives a bit more info.

in Xpath, "." (Dot) represents the current document. So, write your XPATH string after a "." (Dot) .

ex :

"./title"

or

".//title"

Whatever you want....

removing the slash works only if its a child of the node. What if you want to use the // (wherever in the current Document) functionality ?

So, use the dot (.)

Thanks a lot for the above answers too :) .