Multiple elements with the same attribute and attribute value

Question

Hello all, 
 We have an XML file for translation where we were asked to exclude particular elements when some attributes have specific values. Some of them can be found below: 
 Elements: p; ph; note;..... and many more... 
 Attribute: outputclass 
 Value: rn 
 In XML Spy we have tried the following and it works: 
 //(p|ph|note)[@outputclass='rn'] 
 which unfortunately doesn't when we place that in Studio 2017. 
 Since we have 16 elements and each can has 26 different attribute values, is there any way to avoid typing 416 XPaths? 
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 Pavlos 
 
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Paul · Answer

Hi NLG GmbH , 
 
It's always a good idea to provide a snippet of the XML as it's much easier to help you if we can see the XML structure. But here's a guess based on what you have written here: 
 
(//p|//ph|//note)[@outputclass='m']

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Multiple elements with the same attribute and attribute value