How to ignore first and last element in xpath

Question

How to ignore first and last element in xpath? Couldnt find any example on the internet. I only found that you can use [position()>1] to ignore first element but how i can ignore last too?

Answer 1

Try [position()>1 and position()<last()]

Answer 2

You can use

[postion() < last()]

(if the expression appears in an XML document, for example an XSLT stylesheet, then you'll need to escape the < as <)