title: XML: Xpath to read only the first level of Items without knowing the other levels
body: <p>my xml looks like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;item&gt;
    &lt;item&gt;
    &lt;/item&gt;
  &lt;/item&gt;
  &lt;item&gt;
    &lt;item&gt;
    &lt;/item&gt;
    &lt;item&gt;
    &lt;/item&gt;
  &lt;/item&gt;
  &lt;item&gt;
    &lt;item&gt;
    &lt;/item&gt;
    &lt;item&gt;
    &lt;/item&gt;
  &lt;/item&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So in fact I have x level down of the same node as I have on every other node above... 
  How is the xpath to only get the first level of nodes here?</p>