last() does not work inside of following-sibling or preceding-sibling

[asasfu]

last() does not resolve when used inside following-sibling or preceding-sibling.(it effectively resolves to 1 I believe in this case)

augtool print /files/etc/pam.d/password-auth/"*[type='auth'][following-sibling::*[type='auth'][last()]]" != augtool print /files/etc/pam.d/password-auth/"*[type='auth'][following-sibling::*[type='auth'][6]]" (if 6 is your last item in password-auth's auth section)

I'd submit a PR for it but alas I only write Ruby and Java...

[lutter]

I don't follow what this path expression is trying to do. Here's some explanation on what it says:

• /files/etc/pam.d/password-auth/*[type='auth'] are all nodes (~ lines IIRC) in password-auth who have a type child with value auth
• adding [following-sibling::*[type='auth'][last()]] to that keeps only those nodes who have a sibling later on that also has a type child with value auth; the [last()] there doesn't really do anything -if we have any matching following siblings [last()] will always match
• adding [following-sibling::*[type='auth'][6]] to the first expression keeps those nodes who have 6 or more following siblings with a type child with value auth

I wonder whether what was meant was

/files/etc/pam.d/password-auth/"*[type='auth'][following-sibling::*[type='auth']][last()]

which roughly says "Of all the type=auth nodes give me the last one that has a following type=auth sibling"; IOW, "Give me the last-but-one type=auth node" which could be written more concisely as

/files/etc/pam.d/password-auth/"*[type='auth'][last()-1]

But as I said, I am not sure what this expression is trying to achieve, so that suggestion might be wrong