It seems like an interesting problem. Could you post the precise output
you'd like to see after running the below input through the xslt processor?
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 05:21:54PM -0500, cknell(_at_)onebox(_dot_)com wrote:
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.
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