stripping parens

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Hello all.

Imagine I have an XHTML doc like so:

<html>
< ... >
<body>
    <img src= ...>
    <table>
        <tr>
            <td><img src= .. >
...

and I do a //img.  This will give me all img elements in the doc.  If I do
//img[1] I still get the first element in all paths.  If I do (//img)[1], I
get all img elements, where I should just get the first element in the
document.

I looked at the source, and it seems like it strips off the brackets and
ignores the predicate.  Is that correct?  Do you see support for this
anytime soon?  (I know I can just pull the first one off of the array I get
back, but that's not xpath :-)

Just curious.

Thanks,
Pete.
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Peter James
pe...@ph...

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