• To: Dare Obasanjo <dareo@m...>
• Subject: Re: Xpath Question
• From: bob mcwhirter <bob@w...>
• Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 13:46:10 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <830178CE7378FC40BC6F1DDADCFDD1D141AD1B@R...>

Five I think.  Text/element/text/element/text.

/pre/* would be two, as it only selects element children
from the child axis.

	-bob
	(I shoud really know the answer to this, but alas, I'm slack)

On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, 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? 
> 
> 
> -- 
> PITHY WORDS OF WISDOM 
> Herblock's Law: if it is good, they will stop making it.
> 
> 
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights. 
> 
> 
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an
> initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org>
> 
> The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/
> 
> To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription
> manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl>
> 

--
Bob McWhirter        bob@w...
The Werken Company   http://werken.com/

• References:
  • Xpath Question
    • From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>

• Prev by Date: Xpath Question
• Next by Date: Re: Xpath Question
• Previous by thread: Xpath Question
• Next by thread: Re: Xpath Question
• Index(es):
  • Date
  • Thread