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Re: [xsl] ancestor:: but to a point?

2009-03-10 22:22:16
At 2009-03-10 21:18 -0500, Russ Urquhart wrote:
Our document structure is similar to Docbook, but NOT identical.

Our table structure is like the following:

<GenTable>
   <Title>
   <table>
      <tbody>
        <row>
           <entry role="">

when an <entry> element has its role attribute equal to hdr, i would
like to get the <GenTable>  element that contains that <entry>.  I
know that i can get the entry elements via //entry[(_at_)role='hdr'] but
is there a way to use ancestor: but only go as far up at <GenTable>,
and not all the way up to the root?

When your current node is at the <entry> element ...

   select="ancestor::GenTable[1]"

... will address the *closest* ancestor <GenTable> element. This is because in XPath the ancestor axis addresses its nodes in reverse document order, and the [1] predicate is addressing the first in that order.

Trying to get my head fully around Xpath!

Doing so is worth the effort!

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . . . . . Ken


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