RE: Restricting the scope of preceding:: and following

> Wish List: a following-member:: axis which would locate elements
> after the current context element in document order, at any depth 
> (sibling or below), but never going outside the tree defined by 
> the parent of the current context :-)

XPath 2.0 gives you

$a/following::node() intersect $a/ancestor::s/descendant::node()

or

$a/ancestor::s/descendant::node()[. >> $a]

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/