> Am I wrong that
> "../sg" should be true if the immediate parent of the context node is
<sg>? 


yes.

If you were in directory etym on unix and went cd ../sg (or cd ..\sg on windows/dos)
you wouldn't end up at your parent directory but in a sibling directory.

Same is true of xpath. .. is your parent and ../sg is its sg child (ie
your sg sibling)

You want parent::sg

David

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