I think that these two queries should return the same results:
1. /root/title[text() = 'A Test Record']/parent::root/parent::* 2. /root/title[text() = 'A Test Record']/parent::root/parent::node()
on the xml: <root> <title>A Test Record</title> </root>
Query 2 returns the document root and query 1 returns nothing when executing this query with xalan 2.5.1. The method I used is org.apache.xpath.XPathAPI.selectNodeList(Node,String).
thanks, -Trav
