RE: XPath Traversing UP the Hierarchy

       <itemGroups>
           <topSections pes:id="20">
               <description>NULL</description>
               <sectionNo>0</sectionNo>

               <sections pes:id="1">
                   <description>Blasting</description>
                   <sectionNo>1</sectionNo>
                   <items pes:id="1">
                       <description>TriNitroToluene</description>
                       <sectionNo>1.1</sectionNo>
                       <quantity>100</quantity>
                       <unitPrice>15</unitPrice>
                       <uom>
                           <value>each</value>
                           <qualifier>unit</qualifier>
                       </uom>
                       <locations>
                           <quantity>11</quantity>
                           <name>GB Location1</name>
                       </locations>
                   </items>
                   <items pes:id="2">
                       <description>Drilling</description>
                       <sectionNo>1.2</sectionNo>
                       <quantity>100</quantity>
                       <unitPrice>500</unitPrice>
                       <uom>
                           <value>each</value>
                           <qualifier>unit</qualifier>
                       </uom>
                       <locations>
                           <quantity>12</quantity>
                           <name>GB Location2</name>
                       </locations>
               </items>
               .........
               </sections>
           </topSections>
       </itemGroups>
   </estimate>
</pfop:fopContractRoot>

From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE:  XPath Traversing UP the Hierarchy
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 19:27:21 +0100

> Contract -> Estimate ->itemGroup -> topSecion ->Section ->
> Item ->Location
> > > My problem is while at the lowest level of Location I need to
> step up the
> hierarchy to the itemGroup level to check only those items. > I have tried a
> number of variations but cant seem to get it quite right.

ancestor::itemGroup

>             <xsl:for-each
> select="./topSections/sections/items/locations">

None of the names in that path expression quite match the hierarchy as
described above!

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/