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Re: A question about XPath filters (predicates)

From: richard@------.--.--.-- (------- -----)
To: NULL
Date: 10/6/2007 4:30:00 PM

In article <47074f99$0$47148$892e7fe2@a...>,
Johannes Koch  <koch@w...> wrote:

>>> Does /c/d[/a], for example, mean return all d elements that have a
>>> parent (c with a parent root) only if the root has a child a?

>> Yes, but the root is either c or a.

The root node has exactly one element child, which is the root element.
You can only have /c/d if the root element is c, and [/a] will only
be true if the root element is a, so it will never succeed.

-- Richard
-- 
"Consideration shall be given to the need for as many as 32 characters
in some alphabets" - X3.4, 1963.


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