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Re: Simple XPath question

• To: Paul Popiel <PaulP@a...>
• Subject: Re: Simple XPath question
• From: Alexander Johannesen <alexander.johannesen@g...>
• Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 13:41:58 +1000
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On 8/3/05, Paul Popiel <PaulP@a...> wrote:
> whats a clean xpath expression to get the element A which has a child
> element C with @name=something

Clean? Hmm. :)

   //C[@name='something' and ../../node::name() = 'A']

{untested, of course}


Alex
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