You're not explaining yourself well. You've shown some source XML (good) and
have then said that the actual XML might be completely different (so why
show it?). Then you say:
I need to be able to pull the parent node tree into a variable so I can
then loop over them.
Parent of what? What is a "parent node tree"? What does "them" refer to (I
can't find a plural noun)? Why do you want to loop over "them"? Why do you
imagine that pulling it/them into a variable will help? And last but not
least, what output are you trying to produce?
Perhaps (guessing wildly) you just want
<xsl:for-each select="ancestor::*">
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Dexter [mailto:timothy(_dot_)dexter(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com]
Sent: 05 May 2008 21:25
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] Generically Finding Parent Elements
Hi All
Im struggling with a problem. Assume I have the following XML
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ROOT>
<DEPTS>
<DEPT>
<DEPTNO>10</DEPTNO>
<DEPTNAME>Accounting</DEPTNAME>
<EMPLOYEES>
<EMPLOYEE>
<EMPNUM>10001</EMPNUM>
<EMPNAME>Jo Bloggs</EMPNAME>
<SALARY>100000</SALARY>
</EMPLOYEE>
<EMPLOYEE>
<EMPNUM>10002</EMPNUM>
<EMPNAME>Jo Smother</EMPNAME>
<SALARY>220000</SALARY>
</EMPLOYEE>
<EMPLOYEE>
<EMPNUM>10003</EMPNUM>
<EMPNAME>James Dean</EMPNAME>
<SALARY>1000</SALARY>
</EMPLOYEE>
</EMPLOYEES>
</DEPT>
<DEPT>
<DEPTNO>20</DEPTNO>
<DEPTNAME>Shipping</DEPTNAME>
<EMPLOYEES>
<EMPLOYEE>
<EMPNUM>20001</EMPNUM>
<EMPNAME>Dave Gibbons</EMPNAME>
<SALARY>100000</SALARY>
</EMPLOYEE>
<EMPLOYEE>
<EMPNUM>20002</EMPNUM>
<EMPNAME>John Fisher</EMPNAME>
<SALARY>220000</SALARY>
</EMPLOYEE>
<EMPLOYEE>
<EMPNUM>20003</EMPNUM>
<EMPNAME>Marti Johnson</EMPNAME>
<SALARY>1000</SALARY>
</EMPLOYEE>
</EMPLOYEES>
</DEPT>
</DEPTS>
</ROOT>
This is just a sample XML the XSL template needs to handle
any number of levels in the XML - the only known element is
the ROOT name. I need to be able to pull the parent node tree
into a variable so I can then loop over them. The looping I
can handle, any help on grabbing the parent element names in
a tree gratefully received.
Thanks
Tim
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