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• Subject: Re: Xpath Question
• From: Joe English <jenglish@f...>
• Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 11:06:19 -0700
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Dare Obasanjo wrote:

> One of our devs just made me question all that's right in the world with
> the question below. Given the following XML
>
> <pre>
>   <b>bold</b>
>   <i>italic</i>
> </pre>
>
> what is the result of the following XPath expression
> "count(/pre/child::node())" ?
>
> Is the answer 2 or 5?

Five.

"count(/pre/child::*)" yields the more intuitively correct result.


--Joe English

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