Re: [xml-dev] Xpath Question

Dare Obasanjo wrote:

> One of our devs just made me question all that's right in the world with
> the question below. Given the following XML
>
> <pre>
>   <b>bold</b>
>   <i>italic</i>
> </pre>
>
> what is the result of the following XPath expression
> "count(/pre/child::node())" ?
>
> Is the answer 2 or 5?

Five.

"count(/pre/child::*)" yields the more intuitively correct result.


--Joe English