Re: [xsl] Xpath to node that has a parent with a certain at

Both your XPath expressions return a node (the <target> element).

If you want to return a string (the string value of the <target> element) then
wrap a call to string(...) around your current expression.

Michael Kay
Saxonica



> On 25 Oct 2016, at 17:02, Manuel Souto Pico terminolator@xxxxxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I'm struggling to match a node where the parent has a particular id, perhaps
someone can help me.
>
> This is my data:
>
> <xliff>
>   <file>
>     <header/>
>     <body>
>     (...)
>       <trans-unit id="xxx>
>         <source xml:lang="en">foo</source>
>         <target xml:lang="sl" state="zzz">bar</target>
>       </trans-unit>
>
> I have parsed the file and I am trying expressions
>
> $xliff->xpath('//target[parent::trans-unit[@id="xxx"]]')
>
> and
>
> $xliff->xpath('//trans-unit[@id="xxx"]/target')
>
> but they both give me the same result:
>
> array(1) {
>   [0]=>
>   object(SimpleXMLElement)#8 (1) {
>     ["@attributes"]=>
>     array(1) {
>       ["state"]=>
>       string(22) "zzz"
>     }
>   }
> }
>
> My expected result is "bar"
> What I doing wrong?
>
> I'm doing this in php 5.5.11 with libxml Version 2.9.1.
>
> Thank you so much.
> Cheers, Manuel
>
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