Re: [xsl] XPath statement required pls

[Adam Turoff <ziggy@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 01:44:04PM -0400, Sanjay Pandey/Towers Perrin wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have XML file as follows:
> <parameter name = "one">
>    <level1>
>       <level2 name = "a">
>      <level3>
>           <theField>something</theField>
>      </level3>
>       </level2>
>       <level2 name = "b">
>      <level3>
>           <theField>something</theField>
>      </level3>
>       </level2>
>       <level2 name = "c">
>      <level3>
>           <theField>something</theField>
>      </level3>
>       </level2>
>    </level1>
> </parameter>
> 
> <parameter name = "two">
> </parameter>
> 
> My problem is as follows:
> 1. I need to get all the occurrances of <theField> (... and that is fine, I
> am getting those, using XPathAPI, into a NodeIterator)

//theField

Find all occurances of <theField>.

> 2. For each field I want to get the nearest Attribute value, so that I can
> uniquely identify <theField>. Is there a generic way to get the
>      nearest Attribute value? In my case it is not always true that the
> attribute for a field (in this case <theField>) is at a particular level
>      (in the current case, I can get the attribute value by going w levels
> up, ... but then that is what I am trying to find if there is generic
>       way to find the nearest Attribute value for a particular field)

//theField/ancestor::*[@name][1]/@name

Find all occurrances of <theField>, then the first ancestor with a name
attribute, then that name attribute.

HTH,

Z.


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