xpath – how to select every character between an opening and closing tag <example> </example>

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Hello i am programming in Java and..

I have an xml file and I am thinking of using xpath to grab every character between the elements in the code below: I was wondering how would this be done in xpath? I do not want to parse it because between the tags are lots of other tags and attributes and text..

<book>
 <book element 1>
  ........
 </book element 1>

 <book element 2>
  <DATA>.............
  ..............
  ...........
  </DATA>
 </book element 2>
</book>

source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6764383/xpath-how-to-select-every-character-between-an-opening-and-closing-tag-exampl
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