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>This is easier to understand if you think of it in terms of set construction >and iterators. The two expressions with abbreviations eliminated are: > >/descendant-or-self::node()/para[1] >/descendant::para[1] You might ask why // means the first of these, rather than the more obvious second. The answer (I think) is precisely so that expressions like //para[1] will mean what they do; it's more common to want to treat the first paragraph in each section specially than the first paragraph in the while document. -- Richard
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