| short | long | means | try it! |
| [none] | following::item | all the items that come after me | find all the title elements that occur after the titleStmt |
| [none] | following-sibling::l | the l children of my parent that come after me (i.e., the rest of the stanza) | find all the children of titleStmt that follow author |
| [none] | preceding::pb | the pbs that come before me | find all the ab elements that occur before To be, or not to be: |
| [none] | preceding-sibling::head | the head children of my parent that come before me | do any elements ever occur before the speaker within a speech? |
| @rend | attribute::rend | my rend attribute | list all the who attributes |
| @* | attribute::* | all of my attributes | do any of the stage elements have attributes at all? |
Kay, chapter 9