para selects the para element children of the context node
* selects all element children of the context node
text() selects all text node children of the context node
@name selects the name attribute of the context node
@* selects all the attributes of the context node
para[1] selects the first para child of the context node
para[last()] selects the last para child of the context node
*/para selects all para grandchildren of the context node
/doc/chapter[5]/section[2] selects the second section of the fifth chapter of the doc
chapter//para selects the para element descendants of the chapter element children of the context node
//para selects all the para descendants of the document root and thus selects all para elements in the same document as the context node
//olist/item selects all the item elements in the same document as the context node that have an
. selects the context node
.//para selects the para element descendants of the context node
.. selects the parent of the context node
../@lang selects the lang attribute of the parent of the context node