Aha, the node test node() will select all types of nodes, even text() nodes

• so find a <header> which contains 'rationale'
• and select every child node of that header
• and filter this nodeset for nodes which have following-sibling with tagname  <l> or which have tagname  <l>

 xmllint.exe --xpath " //header[ contains(.,'rationale') ]/node()[ fol
+lowing-sibling::l or self::l]   " fudge

                   1. Purpose and rationale
                   <p>purpose 1</p>
                   <p>Purpose 2</p>
                   <p>purpose 3</p>
                   <l>
                      <li>purpose list 1</li>
                      <li>list2</li>
                    </l>
                    2. Purpose and rationale
                    <p>2 purpose 1</p>
                    <p>2 Purpose 2</p>
                    <p>2 purpose 3</p>
                    <l>
                        <li>2 purpose list 1</li>
                        <li>2 list2</li>
                    </l>
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Naturally if there are more than one  <l> you can limit to first <l> with position()  xmllint.exe --xpath " //header[ contains(.,'rationale') ]/node()[ following-sibling::l[ position()=1 ] or self::l[ position()=1 ]  ]   " fudge

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