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Re: grouping in XPATH with parenthesis
- From: David Carlisle <davidc at nag dot co dot uk>
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 22:44:00 +0100
- Subject: Re: [xsl] grouping in XPATH with parenthesis
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> (//*)[position()=1]/@on-loan
it's quite common to use (//*) which is a short form of descendent::*
as opposed to //* which is descendent-or-self::node()/*
as given it selects th on-loan attribute from the first element in the
document.
without the parens it would select the on-loan attribute from every
element that was the first element child of its parent.
David
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