> I saw a lot of comments talking about "[1]" and "[last()]" talking about
> attributes, and I think that is the problem regarding the discussion:  The
> predicate "[1]" and "[last()]" is *not* based on the markup (attributes),
> but rather is based on the order of nodes in the XPath data model (attribute
> nodes).

it's based on the dynamic context, which, changes eg:

(@foo)[last()]

(@foo, @bar)[last()]

nothing special about attributes...




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