A simplified XML case: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/mgnsk/39ffd7f8e0a24038373a53f76c317d93/raw/0c772312121ce089bc4c14082ae54e8882298d74/freshrss_test.xml

• //array/object item and ./string[@name="title"] title gives only a single entry with the title Meta title
• /array/object item and ./string[@name="title"] title gives an empty feed

Now the same XML but the inner array has a name attribute which is similar to the actual XML I dealt with: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/mgnsk/0aab124cfd3516cb8ccddb8d39d5c5a7/raw/e9fe30a5cdedcc736027353e08b4be994f91beb2/freshrss_test.xml

• //array/object item and ./string[@name="title"] title gives me 4 entries
• /array/object item and ./string[@name="title"] title gives empty feed

I was finally able to solve it with

• //array[count(@*)=0]/object item and ./string[@name="title"] title gives correct 2 entries Item 1 and Item 2
  but still wondering why just /array/object couldn't work.

Originally posted by @mgnsk in #5071 (comment)