11.6 Navigation Axes

Path segment: axis::node-test[index/predicate]

Directions of tree traversal:


axis	comments

self		6

child		8, 9, 10
descendant	attribute and namespace nodes not included	8, 9, 10, 11, 12
descendant-or-self		6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
attribute

parent		3
ancestor		1,3
ancestor-or-self		1, 3, 6

preceding-sibling	empty for attribute and namespace nodes	5
following-sibling		7
preceding	nodes preceding the current node	2, 5
following		4, 7

namespace	the namespace nodes of the current node

/	root	1

1|
|------------------|
2 3| 4
|------------|

5 6| 7
|-------|
8 9| 10
|--|

11 12

<article title="red"
         canvas="yellow">
  <section>
    <title>First
       section</title>
    <sentence>Some
       text.</sentence>
    <sentence>More
       text.</sentence>
  </section>
  <appendix/>
</document>

child::sentence	select the ‘sentence’ element children of the context node

child::*	all element children

/descendant::sentence/following-sibling::*

/child::article/attribute::title

//[ancestor:: and not(ancestor::section)]

//[following-sibling::[1] = 'Some text.']

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