• To: "'Tim Bray'" <tbray@t...>,"'Philippe Poulard'" <Philippe.Poulard@s...>
• Subject: RE: XPath terminology
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 21:58:15 -0000
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# >
# > examples :
# > /foo/bar[2]/oof[5]/@rab
# > /foo/bar[2]/oof[5]/text()[2]
# >
# > is there a name or should i invent one ?
# 
# I'm pretty sure that this is what Ted Nelson called a "Tumbler" in the
# Xanadu terminology. -Tim

It is not, of course, the simplest XPath expression to reach a given node.
There are shorter expressions such as

/*[1]/*[3]/*[4]

Or

(//*)[87]

Both the above also have the great advantage that they have no dependency on
namespace prefixes.

Michael Kay

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