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   Re: [xml-dev] Quick question regarding XPath

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Murali Mani wrote:

> is it possible to say in XPath
> 
> a//@b
> 
> is the above equivalent to:
> 
> (a/@b | a//*/@b)

AFAIK '//' always uses the root node as the context, thus there is no 
difference between '/foo//foos' and '//foos'.

What exactly would you like to match? BTW such questions belong to XSL 
related forums...

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