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Anonymous Monk
<p> Its even easier :)
<c>
my @xpaths = qw{
/html/body/p/a
/html/body/p[2]/a
/html/body/p[3]/a
....
/html/body/p[66]/a
};
my $allXpaths = join ' | ', @xpaths;
my @values = $tree->findvalues;
</c>
<p> I don't know about <b>other</b> xpath interpreters, but treebuilder::xpath (and [href://http://xsh.sf.net|xsh] ) allows this
<p> This query is probably faster
<c>
/html/body/p[
position()=1
or position()=2
or position()=3
or position()=66
]/a
</c>
<p> Or this one <c>
/html/body/p[
(
(
position() > 0
and position() < 4
)
or
(
position()=66
)
)
]/a
</c>
<p> Though this one won't work with your html <c> //a[ position()=4] </c> because each //a is at <c> //a[ position() = 1] </c> because each //a is the only (first) child of its parent ( p ) <B>---</B> I guess now I know how position() works
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