Re: [xsl] characters in xsl

Subject: Re: [xsl] characters in xsl
From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:31:08 GMT
  It is short for desecndant-or-self::

  So //value means

No.

If it was desecndant-or-self:: then 
//foo[1]
would select only the first foo in the document

it is

/descendant-or-self::node()/

so that

//foo[1]

selects every foo that is the first child of its parent.

David

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