RE: Restricting the scope of preceding:: and following

On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 17:02, Michael Kay wrote:
> > 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]

Merci monsieur! I knew I'd missed something.

///Peter