RE: [xsl] XPath Traversing UP the Hierarchy

["Grant Bryce" <grant_bryce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

My apologies....i free-handed my heirarchy.  here is an excpert from the 
XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<pfop:fopContractRoot xmlns:pfop="http://www.gov.bc.ca/tran/pesFOP"; 
........:>
   <contractNumber>1</contractNumber>
   <version>1</version>
   <tenderOpenDate>2005-01-01T00:00:00</tenderOpenDate>
   ........
   <contractStartDate>2005-01-01</contractStartDate>
   <fiscalYear/>
   <status/>
   <estimate>
       <estimateNumber>001</estimateNumber>
       <reportingStartDate>2005-01-01</reportingStartDate>
       <reportingEndDate>2005-01-01</reportingEndDate>

       <itemGroups>
           <topSections pes:id="20">
               <description>NULL</description>
               <sectionNo>0</sectionNo>

               <sections pes:id="1">
                   <description>Blasting</description>
                   <sectionNo>1</sectionNo>
                   <items pes:id="1">
                       <description>TriNitroToluene</description>
                       <sectionNo>1.1</sectionNo>
                       <quantity>100</quantity>
                       <unitPrice>15</unitPrice>
                       <uom>
                           <value>each</value>
                           <qualifier>unit</qualifier>
                       </uom>
                       <locations>
                           <quantity>11</quantity>
                           <name>GB Location1</name>
                       </locations>
                   </items>
                   <items pes:id="2">
                       <description>Drilling</description>
                       <sectionNo>1.2</sectionNo>
                       <quantity>100</quantity>
                       <unitPrice>500</unitPrice>
                       <uom>
                           <value>each</value>
                           <qualifier>unit</qualifier>
                       </uom>
                       <locations>
                           <quantity>12</quantity>
                           <name>GB Location2</name>
                       </locations>
               </items>
               .........
               </sections>
           </topSections>
       </itemGroups>
   </estimate>
</pfop:fopContractRoot>


> From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: RE: [xsl] XPath Traversing UP the Hierarchy
> Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 19:27:21 +0100
>
> > Contract -> Estimate ->itemGroup -> topSecion ->Section ->
> > Item ->Location
> >  
> >  
> > My problem is while at the lowest level of Location I need to
> > step up the
> > hierarchy to the itemGroup level to check only those items. 
> > I have tried a
> > number of variations but cant seem to get it quite right.
>
> ancestor::itemGroup
>
> >             <xsl:for-each
> > select="./topSections/sections/items/locations">
>
> None of the names in that path expression quite match the hierarchy as
> described above!
>
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/