how to define XPATH for self-closing tags

[Ritesh Khapre]

Hi

I have a description field which is empty and in xml this a self-closing tag

I am not able to fetch either empty string or replace it with some string like "blank"

Please let me know, how can i define a operator to get the empty string or replace it with "blank

i am using this XPATH

xpath => [
        "/Envelope/Body/response/table/row/description/text()","description"  
]