Will start by saying I am sure this is documented somehow and I probably just
don't know the right word to find that documentation.
I'm trying to query a table from a document, after which I will query details
from that table. The issue I have is that the second xpath query is pulling
results from the entire document.
As an example, I have:
```
from lxml import html
exampledocument="""
<head>
example
</head>
<body>
<table><tbody>
<tr><th>exampleCellNotToFind</th>
</tbody></table>
<table id="exampleTableToFind"><tbody>
<tr><th>exampleCellToFind</th>
</tbody></table>
</body>
"""
example=html.fromstring(exampledocument)
xpath1=example.xpath('//table[@id="exampleTableToFind"]', smart_strings=False)
xpath2=xpath1[0].xpath('//table', smart_strings=False)
xpath3=html.fromstring(html.tostring(xpath1[0])).xpath('//table',
smart_strings=False)
```
In this case, xpath2 includes both tables (xpath1 only includes 1 table), and I
don't understand why. From reading "XPath return values" section of
https://lxml.de/xpathxslt.html#xpath I thought smart_strings=True would the
reason, but setting it to false didn't seem to change the output as far as I
can tell.
I do have a workable solution in this html.fromstring(html.tostring()), but
thought I should ask here to try to understand how these element type variables
are working.
Thanks, for any help.
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