Can someone explain this javascript code to me?

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Published on 2010-05-09T18:27:44Z Indexed on 2010/05/09 18:28 UTC
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var vTableExp = "//a[contains(@href,'newdid')]/ancestor::td/ancestor::tr/ancestor::tbody";

var vTable = dom.find(vTableExp, XPFirst);

thanks

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