XPath OR operator for different nodes

All title nodes with zipcode or book node as parent:

Version 1:

//title[parent::zipcode|parent::book]

Version 2:

//bookstore/book/title|//bookstore/city/zipcode/title

Version 3: (results are sorted based on source data rather than the order of book then zipcode)

//title[../../../*[book or magazine] or ../../../../*[city/zipcode]]

or - used within true/false - a Boolean operator in xpath

| - a Union operator in xpath that appends the query to the right of the operator to the result set from the left query.

If you want to select only one of two nodes with union operator, you can use this solution: (//bookstore/book/title | //bookstore/city/zipcode/title)[1]

It the element has two xpath. Then you can write two xpaths like below:

xpath1 | xpath2

Eg:

//input[@name="username"] | //input[@id="wm_login-username"]