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Re: Is recursive markup good? bad? supported? not supported?

• From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
• To: dlee@calldei.com
• Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:30:40 +0000

On 11/12/2011 17:12, David Lee wrote:
> match="block"
>
> match="block/block"
>
> match="block/block/block"
>
> ==============================
>
> Yes but try to that  for an arbitrary deep occurrence.


match="block[count(ancestor::block)=$n]"


probably works in practice, or if you really need to check that all the 
blocks are direct children of each other then

match="block[every $i in 1 to $n satisfies ancestor::*[$n]/self::block]

David

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