[xsl] big hairy Xpath (Solved!)

[Russell Urquhart <russurquhart1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

I ended using a variation of Wendells sugggest of:

1)   //GenTable[count(.//entry                                                                                                
2)      [Emphasis[@type='bold']                                                                                            
3)               [(.='Address Offset') or                                                                                  
4)                (.='Physical Address') or                                                                                
5)                (.='Instance') or                                                                                        
6)                (.='Description') or                                                                                     
7)                (.='Type') ] )                                                                                           
8)               >= 4] 


changing the entry to .//entry as entry IS a descendant of GenTable and
not a direct child. To see if i got my head around this now. WRT to the
lines numbered above:

1) Go to a GenTable child node. Within that element (that's what the '['
at this point means, right?) go to a descendant entry element.
2) Go to a child Emphasis element, looking for the type attribute set to
'bold'.
3) (Does the opening '[' at this point signal an AND being applied wrt
to...) Within this same element see if it has the value of 'Address
Offset'.
4) - 7) Of if the current element has any of these values, closing the
checking with the ']'
8) if the number of these is >= 4 then return this  GenTable.

Is that about right. The multiple predicates in this situation act like
and AND?


Thanks to everyone for all your help!


Russ