Thank you Kevin:
I want to turn XML into an interactive form, that will allow users to "click-choose" an arbitrary constraint list, and then turn that into a concatentated xpath statement, on the fly. Automatically-operational, user-configurable queries are a powerful idea. It seems to work too.
$XINDICE_HOME/bin/xindice xpath -l -c /db/data -q
"/XSIL[
XSIL/XSIL/XSIL/XSIL/XSIL/[EMAIL PROTECTED]'DIRECTIONAL_TUNING']/[EMAIL PROTECTED]'value'][text()='262'] and /XSIL/[EMAIL PROTECTED]'system']/[EMAIL PROTECTED]'owner'][text()='gwen']
etc
]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]'system']"
....gives me exactly what I wanted (AND'ing subpaths as a condition list inside the outermost wrapper)
Thank you Kevin.
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