RE: Pattern question: first child of first descendant

Syd's pattern is pretty good here. I'm not sure of the exact order of
operations for the position predicate here, so I'd be safe and do this:

(table//entry)[1]/*[self::title or self::para][1]

~ Scott


-----Original Message-----
From: Syd Bauman [mailto:Syd_Bauman@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 8:19 PM
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Subject: Re:  Pattern question: first child of first descendant

> I am looking for a pattern that does "match the first title or para
> child of the first entry descendant of a table element". I'm using
> XSLT2.

There may well be something better, but I would probably have used:
  table//entry[1]/*[self::title or self::para][1]

HTH