xpath Location paths and axes Traversing following and preceding nodes
Example
The following-sibling and preceding-sibling axes contain the siblings before or after the context node, and the following and preceding axes contain all nodes in the document before or after the context node, but:
- None of these axes contain attribute or namespace nodes.
- The
followingaxis doesn't contain any descendants. - The
precedingaxis doesn't contain any ancestors.
Examples:
following::span[1]
following-sibling::*[last()]
