RE: XPath2 preceding / following axis and attributes

> the |following| axis contains all nodes that are descendants 
> of the root 
> of the tree in which the context node is found, are not 
> descendants of 
> the context node, and occur after the context node in document order 
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#dt-document-order>
> 
> So goes the spec...
> 
> So what's on the following axis of a context node, which is an 
> attribute? 

The above says it all. The context node has no descendants, so you can
shorten the definition a bit: the following axis of an attribute contains
all descendants of the root of the tree (that is, all element, text, comment
and processing instructions in the tree) that occur after that attribute in
document order. Note that this includes the descendants of the attribute's
parent element.

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