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Re: API for rewriting XPath

• From: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
• To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
• Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 17:38:11 +0100

It should be possible to do this by converting the expression to XQueryX 
syntax, transforming the XQueryX representation to a new tree (e..g 
using XSLT), and then converting back.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

On 24/10/2010 08:03, rjelliffe@allette.com.au wrote:
> Does anyone know of an API or program for re-writing XPaths?
>
> The particular re-write I want is not the usual one of removing forward
> axes--there are several libraries for that--but of getting an XPath with
> the final location step as the first step.
>
> I.e.
>
> input:
>     a/b/c[@d]/e[@f]
>
> output:
>     e[@f][parent::c[@d][parent::b[parent::a]]]
>
> Any pointers?
>
> Cheers
> Rick
>
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    • From: rjelliffe@allette.com.au