I have an XML struct like this.

                <Process>
                     <Name> Process1 </Name>
                     <SQLFile> aSQLFile.sql </SQLFile>
                     <SQLText> select * from Items <SQLText>
                     <Mode> 2 </Mode>
                <Process>

I am using the etree XML package to work with this XML: beevik/etree

In the sample code below, a list of this XML struct is called elems. I am calling this code to walk through a list of elems in an XML document:

for err, elemA := range elems.FindElements("//Name") {
   err, elemB:=elemA.FindElement(//SQLFile){
       doSomething(elemB)
}

This code works – doSomething(elemB) – does what it is supposed to do, but according to the etree comments on FindElement, it should fail. elemB should be nil:

FindElement returns the first element matched by the XPath-like
‘path’ string. The function returns nil if no child element is found
using the path.

According to that comment, elemB:=elemA.FindElement(//SQLFile) should return nil, because <SQLFile> is a sibling of <Name> , not a child.

Why isn’t elemA.FindElement(//SQLFile) returning nil in this code?