How to ignore first element in xpath

Question

How can I ignore first element and get rest of the elements?

  
some link
  


        

Answer 1

if you want to ignore the "first" element only then:

//li[position()>1]
or
(//a)[position()>1] 

if you want the last only (like your example seems to suggest):

//li[last()]
or
(//a)[last()]