Re: Idea for XPath implementation

/descendant-or-self::*[@id='this']/preceding-sibling::*[starts-with(local-name(),'a')][contains(namespace-uri(),'perlmonks')]//some[3]/text()

I know, it's quite an unlikely expression. But XPath is not only about child node names...

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Re: Re: Idea for XPath implementation by Jaap (Curate) on Apr 01, 2003 at 20:01 UTC
You make a good point about the complexity of XPath. I am aware of it. The reason why i made the simple example was to err... make a simple example ;-)	[reply]


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