Dimitre,
Just to be crystal clear -- why are you recommending the preceding:: axis
here and not preceding-sibling? Won't the latter work as well and be less
expensive?
Cheers,
Wendell
At 02:29 AM 1/19/2003, you wrote:
"S Woodside" <sbwoodside(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com> wrote in message
news:7FCB3007-2B28-11D7-8385-000393414368(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com(_dot_)(_dot_)(_dot_)
> Thanks, I considered this, but I think that passing the full XPath
> makes debugging easier and will be more robust if I change the source
> XML (it has a chance of still working, instead of being guaranteed
not
> to work.
>
This is not so at all, the
(count(ancestor::node()), count(preceding::node()) )
uid will still identify the same node if the changes in the xml
document were made in the descendants or following nodes of this node....
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