XPointer Location Set Functions
Two XPointer functions return location sets:
here()— Returns a location set with one location, the current location
origin()— The same as here(), except that this function is used with out-of-link links
The here() function refers to the current element. This is useful because XPointers are usually stored in text nodes or attribute values, and you might want to refer to the current element (not just the current node). For example, you might want to refer to the second previous <NAME> sibling element of the element that contains an Xpointer; you can use an expression like this to do so: here()/preceding-sibling::NAME[position() = 2].
The origin() function is much like the here() function, but you use it with out-of-line ...
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