How to select any element using wildcard in XPath?

To select elements of any name the wildcard character * can be used:

<article> <h1>title</h1> <p>paragraph</p> <a>link</a> </article>

Wildcard character functions just like any other axis selector and can have predicates and filters applied to it.
For example, we can restrict our wildcard option to a list of names using the name() function:

<article> <h1>title</h1> <p>paragraph</p> <a>link</a> </article>

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