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Chapter 1: Getting Started with Stylus Studio®

Chapter 2: Editing and Querying XML

Chapter 3: Converting Non-XML Files to XML

Chapter 4: Converting EDI to XML

Chapter 5: Working with XSLT

Chapter 6: Creating XSLT Using the XSLT Mapper

Chapter 7: Debugging Stylesheets

Chapter 8: Defining XML Schemas

Chapter 9: Defining Document Type Definitions

Chapter 10: Writing XPath Expressions

Chapter 11: Working with XQuery in Stylus Studio

Chapter 12: Composing Web Service Calls

Chapter 13: Working with WSDL Documents

Chapter 14: Building XML Pipelines

Chapter 15: Publishing XML Data

Chapter 16: Integrating with Third-Party File Systems

Chapter 17: Extending Stylus Studio

Chapter 18: The Stylus Studio Java API

Chapter 19: Stylus Studio GUI Reference

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Examples of XPath Expression Results

Table 97 provides examples of XPath expression results:

Table 97. XPath Expression Results
Expression	Result
`/a`	Returns the document element of the document if it is an `a` element
`/a/b`	Returns all `b` elements that are immediate children of the document element, which is the `a` element
`//a`	Returns all `a` elements in the document
`//a/b`	Returns all `b` elements that are immediate children of `a` elements that are anywhere in the document
`a or ./a`	Returns all `a` elements that are immediate children of the context node
`a/b`	Returns all `b` elements that are immediate children of `a` elements that are immediate children of the context node
`a//b`	Returns all `b` elements that descend from `a` elements that are immediate children of the context node
`.//a`	Returns all `a` elements in the document tree branch that starts with the context node
`../a`	Returns all `a` elements in the document tree branch that are children of the parent node of the context node.

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