> I feat I am wracking my brains again on something simple.
>
> If my xml looks like this:
>
> <A>
>  <B1>
>    <C1>
>    <C2>
>    <C3>
>  <B2>
>    <C4>
>    <C5>
>    <C6>
>  <B3>
>    <C7>
>    <C8>
>    <C9>
> </A>
>
> I am trying to access C nodes by position relative to root using xpath.
>
> For example, to get C9, this does not work: //C[ position()=9 ]  //C[ 9 ]
> presumably because the context to begin counting C nodes is the B node, and there are ony a maximum of 3 C nodes in that context.

Use:

/descendant::C[9]

or

(//C)[9]

read here for Wendell's and David's explanations to me the other day:

http://xsl.markmail.org/search/?q=%2Fdescendant#query:%2Fdescendant%20from%3A%22Andrew%20Welch%22%20order%3Adate-backward+page:1+mid:aiml76qzac2kzzzn+state:results



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