At 2015-07-19 10:12 -0500, Eliot Kimber wrote:
That seems to easy Ken. ... On 7/19/15, 10:09 AM, "G. Ken Holman" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote: ... > $a1//b except $a1//a//b
Perhaps, but you were the one that put that expression in words and I just transliterated it:
At 2015-07-19 06:33 -0500, Eliot Kimber wrote: I want to find all the <b> elements descending from <a id="a1"> but not within nested <a> elements
I see others have commented on the performance of this. I think the maintenance of what I've written is easier than trying to grok the application of the ancestor axis.
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