Re: [xsl] XPath expression which converts the output of path() into an abbreviated path?

["Piez, Wendell A. (Fed) wendell.piez@xxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Joel is right: that is a much better approach.

ancestor-or-self::*[position() = (1 to 3)]/local-name(.) => string-join('/')

Unless I am not mistaken this will collect three levels up - while the /
provides for the return sequence to be read top-down (document order) not
bottom up. (Correct?)

Cheers, Wendell


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From: Joel Kalvesmaki director@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Cc: Roger L Costello costello@xxxxxxxxx
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Subject: Re: [xsl] XPath expression which converts the output of path() into
an abbreviated path?

Here's another approach, if the XPath expression has icaoCode as the context.
Forget about path(). Just string-join the local names of the ancestors and
self, e.g.,

string-join(for $i in (ancestor-or-self::* except /*) return local-name($i),
'/')

jk

On 2022-08-17 08:22, Roger L Costello costello@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I am using the path() function and it is generating paths like this:
>
> /Q{}AeroPublication[1]/Q{}airports[1]/Q{}airport[1]/Q{}icaoCode[1]
>
> Now I want to convert that full path into an abbreviated path,
> consisting of just the last 3 names:
>
> airports/airport/icaoCode
>
> I can write a bunch of XSLT code that does this conversion. But is
> there an XPath expression which does it?
>
> /Roger
>

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