preceding

The preceding axis selects all elements that occur before the context node. The preceding axis has no respect for hierarchy. The first time it encounters an element's start tag, end tag, or empty tag, it counts that element.

/descendant::BORN[position()=3]/preceding::*[position()=5]


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