XPath Help

[rnurse]

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.

 

[Johannes Koch]

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

 

[HugeBob]

Thanks Johannes. That makes sense now.

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

 

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