Hi All,

I'm new to XML and I'm working with an XSL style sheet. In this file
I've noticed the following XPath reference:

<xsl:for-each select="//SomeNodeName">
..
..
..

Could someone explain the "//" in the XPath reference?

Thanks.

rnurse@gmail.com wrote:

I'm new to XML and I'm working with an XSL style sheet. In this file
I've noticed the following XPath reference:
>
<xsl:for-each select="//SomeNodeName">
>
Could someone explain the "//" in the XPath reference?

See the example in the XPath 1.0 specification
(<http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#path-abbrev>):

//para selects all the para descendants of the document root and thus
selects all para elements in the same document as the context node

--
Johannes Koch
Spem in alium nunquam habui praeter in te, Deus Israel.
(Thomas Tallis, 40-part motet)

Thanks Johannes. That makes sense now.

Johannes Koch wrote:

rnurse@gmail.com wrote:

>
See the example in the XPath 1.0 specification
(<http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#path-abbrev>):
>
//para selects all the para descendants of the document root and thus
selects all para elements in the same document as the context node
>
--
Johannes Koch
Spem in alium nunquam habui praeter in te, Deus Israel.
(Thomas Tallis, 40-part motet)

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