• Chapter 1: Getting Started with Stylus Studio®
• Chapter 2: Editing and Querying XML
• Chapter 3: Converting Non-XML Files to XML
• Chapter 4: Working with XSLT
• Chapter 5: Creating XSLT Using the XSLT Mapper
• Chapter 6: Debugging Stylesheets
• Chapter 7: Defining XML Schemas
• Chapter 8: Defining Document Type Definitions
• Chapter 9: Writing XPath Expressions
  • About the XPath Processor
  • Sample Data for Examples and Testing
  • Getting Started with Queries
    • Obtaining All Marked-Up Text
    • Obtaining a Portion of an XML Document
    • Obtaining All Elements of a Particular Name
    • Obtaining All Elements of a Particular Name from a Particular Branch
    • Different Results from Similar Queries
    • Queries That Return More Than You Want
    • Specifying Attributes in Queries
    • Filtering Results of Queries
    • Wildcards in Queries
    • Calling Functions in Queries
    • Case Sensitivity and Blank Spaces in Queries
    • Precedence of Query Operators
  • Specifying the Nodes to Evaluate
  • Handling Strings and Text
  • Specifying Boolean Expressions and Functions
  • Specifying Number Operations and Functions
  • Comparing Values
  • Finding a Particular Node
  • Obtaining a Union
  • Obtaining Information About a Node or a Node Set
  • Using XPath Expressions in Stylesheets
  • Accessing Other Documents During Query Execution
  • XPath Quick Reference
• Chapter 10: Working with XQuery in Stylus Studio
• Chapter 11: Composing Web Service Calls
• Chapter 12: Accessing Relational Data as XML
• Chapter 13: Integrating with Third-Party File Systems
• Chapter 14: Extending Stylus Studio
• Chapter 15: Stylus Studio GUI Reference

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Precedence of Query Operators

The precedence of query operators varies for XPath 1.0 and XPath 2.0, as shown in the following tables. In these tables, operators are listed in order of precedence, with highest precedence being first; operators in a given row have the same precedence.

( )
               

            

[ ]
               

            

              - 
               

            

*, div, mod
               

            

+, -
               

            

= != < <= > >=
               

            

|
               

            

not
               

            

and
               

            

or
               

            

,
               

            

and
               

            

              instance of
               

            

treat
               

            

castable
               

            

cast
               

            

eg, ne, lt, le, gt, ge, =, !=, <, <=, >, >=, 
is, <<, >>
               

            

to
               

            

+, -
               

            

*, div, idiv, mod
               

            

unary -, unary +
               

            

union, |
               

            

intersect, except
               

            

/, //
               

            

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