It is short for desecndant-or-self::
So //value means
No.
If it was desecndant-or-self:: then
//foo[1]
would select only the first foo in the document
it is
/descendant-or-self::node()/
so that
//foo[1]
selects every foo that is the first child of its parent.
David
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