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[Juan Estevan Madrigal] > > I need an XPath statement which will return the first node found in the > document, where the element's local-name() = 'XX'. The node can be anywhere > in the source tree. I've tried all sorts of different statements but they > either result too many records [ I just need the fist "hit"] or no records > at all. > > I only need the first node, not all the nodes. and the name of the element > is only known at runtime. This Xpath will be inside an XSLT file which acts > as a "find command", displaying the first node found in the document. > This should do it, assuming that the desired name is passed in as the parameter $theName - //*[local-name()=$theName][1] Cheers, Tom P XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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