11.2 Child-Parent Axis Paths

Path segment: node-test

.	current node
..	parent node
name	named element node
@name	named attribute node
/	root; paths concatenation
*	wildcard for elements
@*	wildcard for attributes
//	any subpath

<article title="red"
         canvas="yellow">
  <section>
    <title>First
       section</title>
    <sentence>Some
       text.</sentence>
    <sentence>More
       text.</sentence>
  </section>
  <ns:appendix xmlns:ns="none"/>
</article>

root
canvas="yellow"||--| | xmlns:ns="none"
| || |
title= "red"||--|-<article> |||
| |
||------------|| |
|
<section> <ns:appendix>
|----------|------------|
||| || ||
<title> <sentence> <sentence>
| | |
||| || ||

First Some More
section text. text.

/

/article

/article/title

//@canvas	all the attribute nodes named ‘canvas’

//@*

./sentence	the children node elements ‘sentence’ of the current node

./*	all the children element nodes of the current node

./*/sentence	all the grandchildren node elements named ‘sentence’ of the context node

./@*	all the children attribute nodes of the current node

.//	all the descendant element nodes of the current node

//ns:appendix	all the ‘ns:appendix’ element nodes of the document

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