 Querying in the following...

<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" id="test">
    <span id="A"></span>
    <div>
      <span id="B">
        <span id="C"></span>
      </span>
    </div>
    <span id="D"></span>
</div>

Query "preceding::xhtml:span" from span#D
Result: span#A span#B span#C
Expected: span#A span#B span#C
***SUCCESS***