Re: Brackets in XPATHS

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At 22:06 12-02-2002, Mike Brown wrote:
>Edward.Middleton@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > /xpath1/(xpath2|xpath3)/xpath3
>
>You can start with a node-set and refine it, but you can't reference a
>node-set (the union of xpath2 and xpath3) as if it were the child of another
>node-set (xpath1).
>
>(/xpath1/xpath2|/xpath1/xpath3)/xpath4 should work for you.

That's not legal.  A UnionExpr (with the '|' operator) can't be part of a 
Step like that; parentheses, in general, are not allowed in Steps.

Try this instead:

/xpath1/*[name()='xpath2' or name()='xpath3']/xpath4

~Chris
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