Re: [xsl] Pattern question: first child of first descendant

[Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx>]

>>There may well be something better, but I would probably have used:
>>  table//entry[1]/*[self::title or self::para][1]
>
> Me too, until I found that it is wrong :-) It does "match the first
> title or para child of every entry descendant in the table that is the
> first child of some other element".
>
> E.g. in the common case where entry elements are wrapped by row
> elements, the above pattern matches every first para or title element in
> the first entry child of each row in the table, not just the first entry
> element (in document order) in the whole table.

That's the old // gotcha, where you want to use the descendant axis
instead...

As in this case, it often in the form "//somenode[1]" - some good info
on it can be found here:

http://markmail.org/message/ocal22heg7wow3yi#query:related%3Aocal22heg7wow3yi
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