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Sitecore XPath allows to perform lookups using the following syntax:

• Absolute path definition, i.e. /sitecore/content/Home/item_01/item_list_02
  Below are some syntax samples:
• • "/sitecore/content/Home"
    Returns all items that are children to home.
    
  • "/content/Home"
    Returns all items that are children to home (/sitecore is omittable)
    
  • "/sitecore/content/home|/sitecore/system"
    Yields children of home and system items.
    
  • "query:/sitecore/content/home/*"
    Returns all items that are children to home.
    
  • "query:/sitecore/content/home//*"
    Returns all items that have home as ancestor.
    
  • "query:/sitecore/content/home//*[@@templatename='Document']"
    Returns all items that have home as ancestor and have Document as template name. (@@ is not a typo).
    
  • "query:/sitecore/content/home//*[@MyField='MyValue']"
    Returns all items that have home as ancestor and have a field named "MyField" with the value "MyValue".
    
    Note: Basically the ‘query:’ prefix enables the developer to use a full Sitecore XPath query against the database. Please notice that you can't use the | delimiter with query: as | has special meaning in Sitecore XPath.

• Relative path definition, i.e. ./../item_001
  Sample code:
  "query:./document//*"
  Returns all items that have the document as ancestor.