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title: descendant
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  Web/XSLT/Transforming_XML_with_XSLT/The_Netscape_XSLT_XPath_Reference/Axes/descendant
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The descendant axis indicates all of the children of the context node, and all of their children, and so forth. Attribute and namespace nodes are **not** included - the parent of an attribute node is an element node, but attribute nodes are not the children of their parents.
