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Re: XPath for all of an element type prior to context node?
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- Subject: Re: [xsl] XPath for all of an element type prior to context node?
- From: Francis Norton <francis at redrice dot com>
- Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 10:28:33 +0000
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Michael Strasser wrote:
>
> Here's a bit of XPath that is too tricky for me.
>
> Given this simplified XML document (empty elements for clarity):
>
>
> When the context node is any of those with an id attribute, I want a way to
> get the list of resources nodes that occur:
>
> - before the context node; or
> - after the context node.
>
> Please let me know if this request isn't clear.
>
Actually it could be a bit clearer on one point - do want all the
preceding / following resource elements in the whol document or within
some other scope?
If the former, "ancestor::resource | preceding::resource" and
"descendent::resource | following::resource" should do it, given the
useful comment in http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#axes
"NOTE: The ancestor, descendant, following, preceding and self axes
partition a document (ignoring attribute and namespace nodes): they do
not overlap and together they contain all the nodes in the document."
Francis.
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