Different results selecting HTML elements with XPath in Firefox and Internet Explorer

Question

I\'m trying to select a specific HTML element in a document, for firefox i just use:

xpathobj = document.evaluate(xpath, document, null,
               XPath         


        

Answer 1

The problem may be that in IE5+ [1] is in fact [2] in FF. Microsoft solely decided that the numbering should start at [0] and not [1] as specified by w3c.