Re: [xsl] XPATH 1.0: Selecting an element attribute starting from a self:: attribute

["Liam R. E. Quin liam@xxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2015-06-17 at 14:28 +0000, Malecki, Piotr piotr.malecki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The question corresponds basically to XPATH 1.0 (not 2.0 , not XSL).
> 
> I have an XML like this (snippet only):
> 
> <library>
>             <catalog>
>                         <book id="_1" name="Book1"/>
>                         <book id="_2" name="Book2"/>
>                         <book id="_3" name="Book3"/>
>             </catalog>
>             <customer>
>                         <borrowed bookId="_1"/>
>                         <borrowed bookId="_2"/>
>             </customer>
> </library>
> 
> In an application (Windows WPF / XAML), my execution context is e.g. 
> the element "borrowed" (e.g. <borrowed bookId="_1"/>).
> 
> I have to find the name of the book which is referenced as bookId.
> 
> So my XPATH expression is like this:
> "//book[@id=self::*/@bookId]/@name"

> Read as: give all books whose id equals to the bookId of the current 
> node.

Although you can read it that way, remember that predicates change the 
current node for evaluating the predicate. So the current node for
  //book[anything]
will be each book element in the document.

A way to do this in pure XPath is to use two steps. First make an 
Xpath variable binding, e.g. to "this", as the borrowed book, and then 
use
    //book[@id = $this]/@name

Note also that some XPath engines can't return standalone attribute 
names, so you have to return the list of matching elements and iterate 
over them in the host language.

Liam

> 
> The Query  is executed for the "borrowed" node (execution context).
> 
> Unfortunately the expression doesn't return the result expected 
> (rather an empty set).
> 
> What is wrong in my understanding here?
> 
> Thank you
> regards
> Piotr
> 
> 
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> 
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> 
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