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# > # > examples : # > /foo/bar[2]/oof[5]/@rab # > /foo/bar[2]/oof[5]/text()[2] # > # > is there a name or should i invent one ? # # I'm pretty sure that this is what Ted Nelson called a "Tumbler" in the # Xanadu terminology. -Tim It is not, of course, the simplest XPath expression to reach a given node. There are shorter expressions such as /*[1]/*[3]/*[4] Or (//*)[87] Both the above also have the great advantage that they have no dependency on namespace prefixes. Michael Kay
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