> I tried the following  query and got results even the actual 
> number of count is 1. It seems that if either side of the 
> expression is true, the whole expression is true. 
> /someelement[2 < count(somechildelement) < 5]
> 

The expression
   a < b < c
means
   (a < b) < c
which means
   number(a < b) < number(c)

So the result of the comparison a<b is converted to a number (0 or 1)
and this is compared with c. Note very useful, but that's the way it
works.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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