Re: Hierarchy problem

> I'm looking for *immediate* descendent, i

ie child,

that's the one I didn't have a typo in, using / instead of //


> count($x//*|$y) = count($x//*)

> implies that node $y is a member of the set which is all the children of $x?

> Is that right?
No!  If you want child (or as you insist on calling it direct descendent)
then you want to use the child axis not descendent-or-self, so that
would be
count($x/*|$y) = count($x/*)
        ^                ^
also y contains a node set of more than one node, in general so you
mean
 the node set y is a subset of ...
not
 the node y is a member of ....


David


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