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Maksee
Maksee

Reputation: 2401

following-sibling for any descendant confusion

For a html text 

<html>
 <body>
  <div id="1">1</div>
  <div id="2">1</div>
  <div id="3">1</div>
 </body>
</html>

I query 

//following-sibling::div[3]

And the result is there 

<div id="3">1</div>

But according to XPath specs

The following-sibling axis contains the context node's following siblings, those children of the context node's parent that occur after the context node in document order;

So what is the context node after that 3rd div is successfully found? It seems that when // founds first div, there's no 3rd div after it, the last accessible should be [2]. If the context node is not div but body or html then divs are not siblings for them.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 535

Answers (1)

nwellnhof
nwellnhof

Reputation: 33618

The context node is the first text node (containing only whitespace) in the body element.

Upvotes: 2

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