Hi,
The following-sibling axis contains all the following siblings of the context node.
The following axis contains all nodes in the same document as the context node that are after the context node in document order, excluding any descendants and excluding attribute nodes and namespace nodes.
I am taking a small example from zvon.org.
a) /AAA/BBB/following-sibling::* of the below document yiedls the result which is in bold.
<AAA>
<BBB>
<CCC/>
<DDD/>
</BBB>
<XXX> <DDD>
<EEE/>
<DDD/>
<CCC/>
<FFF/>
<FFF>
<GGG/>
</FFF>
</DDD>
<XXX> <CCC> <DDD/>
</CCC> </AAA>
b) /AAA/BBB/following::* yields the result which is in bold
<AAA>
<BBB>
<CCC/>
<DDD/>
</BBB>
<XXX>
<DDD>
<EEE/>
<DDD/>
<CCC/>
<FFF/>
<FFF>
<GGG/>
</FFF>
</DDD>
<XXX>
<CCC>
<DDD/>
</CCC> </AAA>
For more on this refer
http://www.zvon.org/xxl/XPathTutorial/General/examples.html Hope this helps you.
Ravikiran Muvva