In XPath how to select the element content

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Hi all,

Is there a way of writing an XPath expression to select the content of the element.

e.g.

<Element>xxx</Element>

Assuming I can write XPath (/Element) to get Element how do I tweak the XPath to get xxxx returned rather than the Element wrapper.

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