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It is either 2 or 5 depending on whether your parser preserved the text
nodes containing boundary whitespace.
And yes, the child::* expression would be cleaner if only element nodes
are requested.
Best regards
Michael
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe English [mailto:jenglish@flightlab.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 11:06 AM
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Xpath Question
>
>
> 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
>
> jenglish@flightlab.com
>
>
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