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xpath: which is right?

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• Subject: xpath: which is right?
• From: Suzan Foster <su@i...>
• Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2004 20:10:44 +0200

Taking the following XML:

  <foo>
     <bar id="1" />
     <bar id="2" />
     <bar id="3" />
     <fu />
   </foo>

which value should be returned by the xpath:

preceding::bar[1]/@id

libxslt says 3, whilst XML::XPath says 1.

groetjes, su.

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