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Assuming the following XML:

<poll>
<title>Test Poll</title>
<date>07/30/2003</date>
<instructions>Please respond to the following poll:</instructions>
<questions>
<question>
<label>What is your choice?</label>
<choices>
<choice>Choice 1</choice>
<choice>Choice 2</choice>
<choice>Choice 3</choice>
</choices>
</question>
</questions>
</poll>

.... I'd like to use XPath to find the "choice" element that has a
particular value, for example "Choice 2."

What is the syntax? I thought it would be something like:

//choices[choice='Choice 2']/choice

.... but that doesn't seem to do the trick. Any ideas?
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