> I'm writing a breadth-first parser but I want to restrict the 
> parse to /resultset/result[1] So at any given node I need the 
> subset of following::* that has /resultset/result[1] as an ancestor.
> 
Some processors have an xx:intersect() extension function:

  xx:intersect(/resultset/result[1]//*, following::*)

In XPath 2.0 you can do

  /resultset/result[1]//*[. follows current()]

which might be rather more efficient if the subtree is small compared
with the full document.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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