• Chapter 1: Getting Started with Stylus Studio®
• Chapter 2: Editing and Querying XML
• Chapter 3: Converting Non-XML Files to XML
• Chapter 4: Working with XSLT
• Chapter 5: Creating XSLT Using the XSLT Mapper
• Chapter 6: Debugging Stylesheets
• Chapter 7: Defining XML Schemas
• Chapter 8: Defining Document Type Definitions
• Chapter 9: Writing XPath Expressions
  • About the XPath Processor
  • Using the XPath Query Editor
  • Sample Data for Examples and Practice
  • Getting Started with Queries
    • Obtaining All Marked-Up Text
    • Obtaining a Portion of an XML Document
    • Obtaining All Elements of a Particular Name
    • Obtaining All Elements of a Particular Name from a Particular Branch
    • Different Results from Similar Queries
    • Queries That Return More Than You Want
    • Specifying Attributes in Queries
    • Filtering Results of Queries
    • Wildcards in Queries
    • Calling Functions in Queries
    • Case Sensitivity and Blank Spaces in Queries
    • Precedence of Query Operators
  • Specifying the Nodes to Evaluate
  • Handling Strings and Text
  • Specifying Boolean Expressions and Functions
  • Specifying Number Operations and Functions
  • Comparing Values
  • Finding a Particular Node
  • Obtaining a Union
  • Obtaining Information About a Node or a Node Set
  • Using XPath Expressions in Stylesheets
  • Accessing Other Documents During Query Execution
  • XPath Quick Reference
• Chapter 10: Working with XQuery in Stylus Studio
• Chapter 11: Composing Web Service Calls
• Chapter 12: Building XML Pipelines
• Chapter 13: Publishing XML Data
• Chapter 14: Integrating with Third-Party File Systems
• Chapter 15: Extending Stylus Studio
• Chapter 16: The Stylus Studio Java API
• Chapter 17: Stylus Studio GUI Reference

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Precedence of Query Operators

The precedence of query operators varies for XPath 1.0 and XPath 2.0, as shown in the following tables. In these tables, operators are listed in order of precedence, with highest precedence being first; operators in a given row have the same precedence.

( ) 

[ ] 

-  

*, div, mod 

+, - 

= != < <= > >= 

| 

not 

and 

or 

, 

and 

instance of
 

treat 

castable 

cast 

eg, ne, lt, le, gt, ge, =, !=, <, <=, >, >=, 
is, <<, >> 

to 

+, - 

*, div, idiv, mod 

unary -, unary + 

union, | 

intersect, except 

/, // 

[ ]