Re: parsing a complex xml tree into simple trees (a c

>   Mmh.  I don't understand what's the difference between the two

.//a[1]

selects every a that is the first child of its parent, so it may select
any number of nodes

descendant::a[1]

selects the first a descendant, so at most one node.

David


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