Moving to XML

Beginning XSL-T [vii]: Patterns

*

matches any element

foo

matches any element whose type is foo

foo | bar

matches any element whose type is foo or bar

foo/bar

matches any bar element with a foo parent

foo//bar

matches any bar element with a foo ancestor

foo[ @bar='baz']

matches any foo element which has a bar attribute which has the value baz

foo[1]

matches any foo element which is the first foo child of its parent

foo[ position() = 1]

matches any foo element which is the first child of its parent

[ position() < 5]

matches any element which is the first, second, third or fourth child of its parent

text()

matches any text element.

This is just the basics. The full definition is here

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