Re: Selecting the first node set

Wendell Piez wrote:

> > (//Value)[1]

> I've started teaching /descendant::Value[1] as a more intuitive and
> transparent solution to this little (but consequential) conundrum.

> It's also reassuring to newcomers who want a simple thing to be
> simple

  What you gain somewhere, you loose it elsewhere.  For example in the
simple "definition" of "//" (something like "it is identical to
descendant::").

  I think that to know the language, you have to know such subtleties.
But of course, at the biginning, using a less error-prone alternative
is best.  And I think the abbreviate syntax is more intuitive and
readable to the non-used eye.

Cheers,
Wendell