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in reply to 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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