Re: stripping parens

[Peter R. <php...@pe...>]

On Saturday 21 Jun 2003 08:33, Peter James wrote:
> 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.

see note at http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#path-abbrev

"NOTE: The location path //para[1] does not mean the same as the 
location path /descendant::para[1]. The latter selects the first 
descendant para element; the former selects all descendant para 
elements that are the first para children of their parents."