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Author	eli.bendersky
Recipients	Antoine2008, eli.bendersky, flox, karlcow
Date	2013-03-09.14:22:17
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Message-id	<1362838938.04.0.438562412056.issue17138@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Gutzwiller, the [position] syntax means the Nth child of its parent. Since you placed the second <h1> into <p>, it's the first child of its parent. So the library's behavior is correct here. Note: >>> [e.text for e in xml.findall('.//h1[1]')] ['1', '2']

Gutzwiller, the [position] syntax means the Nth child *of its parent*. Since you placed the second <h1> into <p>, it's the first child of its parent. So the library's behavior is correct here. Note:

>>> [e.text for e in xml.findall('.//h1[1]')]
['1', '2']

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Date	User	Action	Args
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