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Well, a cross-document reference in XPath might look like this: ref="doc('other.xml')/id('toc')" But whether that's useful to you, I don't know. It's not XPointer - but it's probably a lot more useful than XPointer. If I wanted to do this I would probably do: ref="other.xml#toc" which isn't XPath. It all depends on how you want to use the reference. Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/ > -----Original Message----- > From: aaron miller [mailto:aaronstevenmiller@g...] > Sent: 25 March 2009 22:50 > To: xml-dev@l... > Subject: New to list, question about cross doc > references in xpath > > Hi everyone, > > I'm new to the list, so forgive me if this has been > discussed. The question that led me here is: Does Xpath (or > anything) provide a way to reference nodes across documents, > in situations where documents are part of a package? > > My goal is to be able to construct xpointer fragments that > will properly resolve across docs in OPF. > > Example: > > id(string(//opf:spine[0]/@toc)) > > gets me the element whose @src references another document, > and in that document, I need to step further: > > //ncx:navPoint[0]/content[0] > > and from that node, I need to step into the document referred > to in the @src (of the content el) > > and so on... > > > Thanks > Aaron > > ______________________________________________________________ > _________ > > 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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