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It is either 2 or 5 depending on whether your parser preserved the text nodes containing boundary whitespace. And yes, the child::* expression would be cleaner if only element nodes are requested. Best regards Michael > -----Original Message----- > From: Joe English [mailto:jenglish@f...] > Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 11:06 AM > To: xml-dev@l... > Subject: Re: Xpath Question > > > Dare Obasanjo wrote: > > > One of our devs just made me question all that's right in the world with > > the question below. Given the following XML > > > > <pre> > > <b>bold</b> > > <i>italic</i> > > </pre> > > > > what is the result of the following XPath expression > > "count(/pre/child::node())" ? > > > > Is the answer 2 or 5? > > Five. > > "count(/pre/child::*)" yields the more intuitively correct result. > > > --Joe English > > jenglish@f... > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl>
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