Re: position() problem with // axis + parent numbering probl

On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Warren Hedley wrote:

> David Carlisle wrote:
> >
> > what were you expecting? It looks OK to me.
> > Perhaps you wanted the (//text)[1] form which only returns one node
> > (see the second half of my example in first reply).
> 
> Thanks David and Mike. (//text)[1] was exactly what I was after -
> I didn't realise you could do that. And thank you both for the
> explanations.

Wouldn't /descendant::text[1] be faster with most parsers? (or am I
mistaken in that would produce different results?)

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