Subject: Re: ### Outputting the "full path". Is this possible ?? ### From: Dan Morrison <dman@xxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 05:43:02 +1200 |
David Carlisle wrote: > > but what if an element contains a sequence of elements... Yes, 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. This puzzled me a bit when coming from web development. I figured an XML node could be regarded as an extension of a filesystem path ... until I tried impimenting it. Although you probably understand what I mean if I was to indicate a path like "http://my.xml.com/document.xml#/root/chapter/section", the fact is that that notation CANNOT work. Working backwards from Davids eg, you will see that it will have to be something like document.xml#/root[0]/chapter[1]/section[1] before it becomes meaningful. This may be long-obvious for some on this list, but it blew me away when I first got around to thinking about this limitation (or gotcha) .dan. XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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