xpath is awesome, especially once you understand what an axis is. And that is what I've found most people who have trouble with it don't understand - like what

xpath is awesome, especially once you understand what an axis is. And that is what I've found most people who have trouble with it don't understand - like what exactly following-sibling or child means. I spent about 2 months writing my own xpath evaluator once and it gets so much easier (to implement too) when you understand this is just a tree-traversal with an iterator following the axis. Unfortunately the axis syntax makes it very verbose to read.