Subject: RE: [xsl] XPath question From: "Andy J. Cupp" <acupp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:44:59 -0600 |
Charles, I don't think you can combine 2 axes (such as parent and preceding-sibling) in just one xpath statement. I think you will need 2 steps. First, make the parent the context node, and then refer to the parent's preceding-sibling, like this: <xsl:for-each select="parent::node()"> <!--Inside this for-each, the parent is now the context node--> <xsl:variable name="elementCount" select="count(preceding-sibling::node())"/> </xsl:for-each> Hope this helps, Andy -----Original Message----- From: cknell@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cknell@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 4:22 PM To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [xsl] XPath question Every time I think I have a good grasp on XPath, it slips between my fingers. Consider the following XML: <menu> <item title="Vegetables"> <item title="tubers"> <item title="potatoes"> <item>Idaho</item> <item>Maine</item> <item>Russet</item> <item>Yam</item> </item> </item> </item> <item title="Fruits"> <item title="Apples> <item>Fuji</item> <item>Granny Smith</item> <item>Rome</item> </item> <item>Milk</item> </menu> I have an HTML application for which I must flatten out the hierachy of this XML document, yet still maintain a link to the parent element for each child element. To this end I have decided to number each element according to its position in the hierarachy and use a "dot-delimitted" format for each element's id (i.01.03.11). I have struggled in vain today to come up with an XPath expression which would tell me how many elements are on the preceding-sibling axis of the parent of a given node. Can anyone straighten me out on this? Thanks. -- Charles Knell cknell@xxxxxxxxxx - email XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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