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Original Message From: "G. Ken Holman" >>More precisely what I should have said is that XPath can't express "b >>whose nearest qualified ancestor is in namespace ns1". Sort of >>b[qualified-ancestor::ns1]! > > b[ancestor::*[namespace-uri()!=''][1][self::ns1:*]] > > Does this help you? I would have to say yes and no to that :-) I'm impressed that it can do the job, but its not pretty! Thanks for this. Pete Cordell Codalogic Ltd Interface XML to C++ the easy way using C++ XML data binding to convert XSD schemas to C++ classes. Visit http://codalogic.com/lmx/ or http://www.xml2cpp.com for more info ----- Original Message ----- From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@C...> To: "XML-Dev Mailing list" <xml-dev@l...> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 8:54 PM Subject: Re: Venetian Blinds vs Garden of Eden patterns for industry standards XML Schemas > > At 2010-10-28 20:48 +0100, Pete Cordell wrote: >>Original Message From: "G. Ken Holman" >> >>>>My XPath knowledge is very weak, but does that allow for matching 'b' in >>>>the 'tree' of: >>>> >>>>ns1:root/a/b ? >>> >>>No, you only asked "b whose qualified parent is in namespace ns1" >> >>Ah sorry. Instead of 'parent' I should have used the word 'ancestor'. >> >>More precisely what I should have said is that XPath can't express "b >>whose nearest qualified ancestor is in namespace ns1". Sort of >>b[qualified-ancestor::ns1]! > > b[ancestor::*[namespace-uri()!=''][1][self::ns1:*]] > > Breaking that down: > > b > b[ancestor::*[namespace-uri()!='']] = all ancestors not in null > namespace > b[ancestor::*[namespace-uri()!=''][1]] = closest of those > b[ancestor::*[namespace-uri()!=''][1][self::ns1:*]] = when it is in ns1 > > Does this help you? > > . . . . . . . . . Ken > > > -- > Crane Softwrights Ltd. http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/m/ > G. Ken Holman mailto:gkholman@C... > Male Cancer Awareness Nov'07 http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/m/bc > Legal business disclaimers: http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/legal > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > > XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS > to support XML implementation and development. To minimize > spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. > > [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ > Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@l... > subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@l... > List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php > >
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