Re: Iterating over all the Ancestors

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Subject: Re: Iterating over all the Ancestors
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 18:20:31 -0500

Bix,

At 05:36 PM 11/26/2002, you wrote:

Suppose I wanted to stop at a given node or after a certain number of ancestors. What would I do to tweak your original solution?

It depends on your criteria. It can get a bit tricky since this is a reverse axis, so e.g. select="ancestor-or-self::*[position < last()] gets all but the document element (the last of the ancestor elements going up).

select="ancestor::*[position <= 3] gets your first three ancestors (but not your context node).

Cheers,
Wendell


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