[XSL-LIST Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] === Identifying a unique node in a DOM tree ===
If we are to make alterations to a dom tree, and xsl does not actually identify a node by xpath in a dependable manner (see quote from xsl list below), is there an XML or DOM implementaion that uniquely identifies a node? The purpose is to NOT use a database, but instead a flat xml file and be able to identify and edit a particular node. QUOTE FROM SUBSCRIBER OF XSL-LIST (In response to David Carlisle) "Be aware that there is no nice way to locate a node by just giving a path. You /can/ construct a path from a node, but that path does NOT uniquely identify that node gain. You may have to take into account ordinal (array) positions before your node path becomes definitive. This puzzled me a bit when coming from web development. I figured an XML node could be regarded as an extension of a filesystem path ... until I tried impimenting it. Although you probably understand what I mean if I was to indicate a path like "http://my.xml.com/document.xml#/root/chapter/section", the fact is that that notation CANNOT work. Working backwards from Davids eg, you will see that it will have to be something like document.xml#/root[0]/chapter[1]/section[1] before it becomes meaningful. This may be long-obvious for some on this list, but it blew me away when I first got around to thinking about this limitation (or gotcha) .dan. XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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