Re: Re: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: XPath riddle

Yes, this only will not work in the more general case when the ancestor element
names to check for are generated "on the fly" from a schema.

Then only the second expression I gave will work:

//D/C[name(ancestor::*[contains($listOfDefiningEls, concat(' ', name()))][1])='A']

Also note, that an optimizing XPath processor will stop at the first occurence of
the above expression, while if last() is used, it will have to produce all the
nodes.

Thanks,
Wendell

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