Re: Getting a NodeList from a NodeList

Generally, this cannot be done within the documented object model of the
MSXML2 namespace (MSXML4.dll).

You can *easily* do this in XSLT.



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Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL


"Allistair Crossley" <Allistair.Crossley@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:5684A7E6FB10504393A2806C1F4C021017CB36@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi
>
> I am using XSL and MSXML 4 to do some reports. I have a main body of XSL
which selects from an XML tree all employees who belong to a particular
department which is a list being looped over already. The current department
value is stored in $deptName
>
> <xsl:for-each
select="mycomp:getFilteredEmployeeRecords(//employee[./@department =
$deptName])">
>
> Here, I am passing the result of "all employees in the current department"
to a MSXSL:SCRIPT function where I want to filter the node list even more
and return it.
>
> Let's say I want a node list of all employees called John from the node
list that I pass into the function to come out.
>
> My problem is that nodeList is a DOMNodeList and does not have what I need
to select another nodeList from it...i.e Node's selectNodes. All it has is
the ability to get a node.
>
> I want to do something like
>
> function getEmployeeRecords(nodeList) {
> return nodeList.selectNodes("/employee[@name='John']");
> }
>
> The problem is that nodeList is a list of EMPLOYEE nodes.
>
> How can I return a nodeList from my function which is all EMPLOYEE nodes
in nodeList with name = John?
>
> I have thought about sibling functions but I am not sure.
>
> Allistair Crossley
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