Selecting a specific table with XPath

Question

I've got an XHTML document, and I want to select the only table in it with class="index".

If I understand correctly, the descendant axis will select all nodes directly and indirectly descending from the current node, so here's what I've got.

//descendant::table[@class="index"]

It doesn't appear to be working when tested with xmlstarlet. Is my tool broke, or is the XPath expression wrong?

Answer 1

I think //table[@class="index"] is what you want