Re: position() problem : The code

Mike Kay and I already answed this (guessing the form of your input
before you posted it)

You don't have any element with two mod children so
 //mot[2]
will return nothing (it would return all the mot elements that have one
earlier mot sibling)


similarly for all your other examples that have numeric predicates.

//mot['2'] on the other hand has a string predicate so that is coereced
to a boolean, strings are considered true if they are non empty, so
//mot['2'] is //[mot[true()] which is //mot.


As Mike's answer said, if you want the second mot element in the whole
document that is

(//mot)[2]  or /descendent::mot[2]


David

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