Hi,
            Thanks for the suggestion. I had thought of this earlier but
felt I may  not know the exact position that root would appear in my input.
I have since changed my xpath to

/table/tr/root/tr/*[1]

Now, I will have to ensure that the above always evaluates to the node I
want.

Cheers,
Omprakash.V







                                                                                                                   
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 //root/*[2], I get nothing.

That searches the whole document (// is an expensive operation) for root
elements and then selects the second child of each of those.

You root element hasn't got two children, just one, a tr, you don't want
a second child, you want a grandchild

//root/*/*

David

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