Question

His,

I think I’ve got a tricky questions for XPath experts. There is a node structure like this:

A(1)-|
     |-B(1)
     |-B(2)
     |-B(3)
A(2)-|
     |-B(2.1)
     |-B(2.2)
     |-B(2.3)
...

How to, with a single XPath-expression, extract only the following nodes

A(1)-|
     |-B(2)
     |-B(3)
A(2)-|
     |-B(2.2)
     |-B(2.3)
...

That is for every parent node its first child element should be excluded.

I tried A/B[position() != 1] but this would filter out only B(1.1) and select B(2.1).

Thanks

Answer 1

Tricky. You could select nodes that have preceding siblings:

A/B[preceding-sibling::*]

This will fail for the first element and succeed for the rest.