Re: Compact XPath syntax

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Subject: Re: Compact XPath syntax
From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 09:32:34 -0500

At 2007-12-26 18:17 +0530, Mukul Gandhi wrote:

Incidentally, for the above example, I would write the expression as:
//c[parent::b]
//c[parent::f]
(in these examples, we filter nodes using a predicate).

Have you considered instead the following equivalent addresses:

  //b/c
  //f/c

or //c (if you want to select all 'c' elements everywhere in the tree).

Remembering, though, in all the above cases that "//" can be an expensive XPath address and should be used sparingly.

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . . . . . Ken


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Compact XPath syntax Ramkumar Menon - 19 Dec 2007 23:44:54 -0000 David Carlisle - 19 Dec 2007 23:53:31 -0000 Michael Kay - 20 Dec 2007 00:40:25 -0000 Mukul Gandhi - 26 Dec 2007 12:47:54 -0000 Message not available G. Ken Holman - 26 Dec 2007 14:33:38 -0000 <= Mukul Gandhi - 26 Dec 2007 15:52:36 -0000

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