Phantom wrote:
> slick  8^)  however, won't this also match on crabapple and applebys?

Nope. Note that he's concatenating a few non-name characters (space and 
comma) before doing the test.

However, I *really* hate relying on testing localname and losing proper 
namespace-awareness. Bad habit to get into.


If you really want to do it via a predicate, I'd suggest
	"//*[self::apple or self::orange]"
which will walk the tree and return only those nodes which are apple or 
orange elements.

However,
	"//apple | //orange"
really should work. XPath defines the '|' character as the union 
operator. This expression should return every node that is either an 
apple or an orange. You say you're only getting the first hit -- but I 
think that means either you're misusing your XPath API by failing to 
retrieve results after the first, or it's broken and you should consider 
switching implementations. (You didn't show us the surrounding code, and 
I don't recognize the syntax, so I can't say much beyond that.)