Dinesh,
The axis you want is the ancestor axis:
<xsl:for-each select="ancestor::*">
<td>spacer</td>
</xsl:for-each>
<td><xsl:value-of select="@name"/></td>
The ancestor nodes are traversed by the for-each in document order
(top-down), but since you're only putting out spacers that's okay here.
You can find more about the ancestor and ancestor-or-self axes in any
decent introduction to XPath location paths (and you should really do this
before asking hundreds of people on the list).
Good luck,
Wendell
At 01:52 PM 11/25/2003, you wrote:
Hi folks,
Can somebody please let me know of an XPATH expression on how to recursively
walk up a tree.
I have a tree of directories in an XML
<directories>
<directory name=blah>
<directory name="blee">
... to arbitrary depth
</directory>
</directory>
</directories>
I need to put each element into a <tr> and a <td> for each level.
<table>
<tr><td>blah</td></tr>
<tr><td>spacer</td><td>blee</td></tr>
<tr><td>spacer</td><td>spacer</td><td>...</td></tr>
</table>
TIA,
Dinesh
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