On Jun 9, 4:53 ¨Âí¬ Òïâåòô Ëìåííå ¼óèïòôãõô®®®Àçïïçìåíáéì®ãïí¾ ÷òïôåº > 2008/6/8 Dennis Edwards <dedw... / gmail.com>: > > > I get that part of the syntax - ¨Âèáäïïäéäî§ôçåéó ÷è> > the two xpath operations I have are referring to the same document - I > > assumed they would be scoped to only the data passed to the block. > > Well, they are because they use the node as basis. ¨Âõô éæ ùïçéöå > the command "search everything from the root on" then no matter where > you start the root node of that document will determine the start > position. ¨Âåîãå ùïèáöå ¢®ôï äåîïôå ôèãõòòåîîïäå> > Cheers > > robert > > -- > use.inject do |as, often| as.you_can - without end Thanks a lot Robert.. makes perfect sense now. Cheers. Dennis