Subject: RE: === Identifying a unique node in a DOM tree === From: "Pawson, David" <DPawson@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 09:07:10 +0100 |
>below), is there an XML or DOM implementaion that uniquely identifies a >node? The purpose is to NOT use a database, but instead a >flat xml file and >be able to identify and edit a particular node. > > >QUOTE FROM SUBSCRIBER OF XSL-LIST >(In response to David Carlisle) > >"Be aware that there is no nice way to locate a node by just giving >a path. >You /can/ construct a path from a node, but that path does NOT uniquely >identify that node gain. > >You may have to take into account ordinal (array) positions before your >node path becomes definitive. surely, using the previously supplied script, at each level it should be possible to obtain its position relative to siblings? Hence instead of just 'chapter', it should be possible to state that it is 'chapter[5]' ? Use of position, having obtained the document order context again? Yet another case of matching generate-id() ? Or am I missing something? Regards, DaveP XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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