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Ignoring the stuff about case-independence, define a key on the identifier <xsl:key name="k" match="DEFCONCEPT" use="@name"/> Find the logical parent using the key function: key("k", PARENT/CONCEPT/@name) or the grandparent by doing it twice: key("k", PARENT/CONCEPT/@name) / key("k", PARENT/CONCEPT/@name) That's XPath 2.0, in 1.0 you write key("k", key("k", PARENT/CONCEPT/@name)/PARENT/CONCEPT/@name) Since your data (unusually) represents relationships in both directions, you can also use the key to find the children key("k", CHILD/CONCEPT/@name) or grandchildren: key("k", CHILD/CONCEPT/@name) / key("k", CHILD/CONCEPT/@name) Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/ > -----Original Message----- > From: RQamar [mailto:qamar_rahil@xxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: 28 January 2005 14:27 > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: graph-traversal query > > Hi > > This is a question I asked earlier on the forum and was advised by > Wendell to send it as a seperate query so I could get feedback from a > wider audience. > > I'm educating myself on XSLT and XPath but until the two books Ive > recently ordered arrive, I'd need some help from the experts > to help me > proceed. > > My query is thus: > > > Im finding the dynamic assigning and traversing process in > XSL quite > > confusing. Is there a logical way of traversing through a tree to > > determine the grandchild of an element albeit indirectly. So I know > > that my XML file is as below > > > > ----------------------- > > <DEFCONCEPT id="10180" name="Car"> > > <PARENT> > > <CONCEPT name="Automobile" ref="10181"/> > > </PARENT> > > <CHILD> > > <CONCEPT name="Toyota" ref="10235"/> > > </CHILD> > > </DEFCONCEPT > > > <DEFCONCEPT id="10235" name="Toyota"> > > <PARENT> > > <CONCEPT name="Car" ref="10180"/> > > </PARENT> > > <CHILD> > > <CONCEPT name="Corolla" ref="10279"/> > > </CHILD> > > </DEFCONCEPT > > > <DEFCONCEPT id="10279" name="Corolla"> > > <PARENT> > > <CONCEPT name="Toyota" ref="10235"/> > > </PARENT> > > </DEFCONCEPT > > > ----------------------- > > and I want to reach the <DEFCONCEPT name="Corolla"> from the node > > <DEFCONCEPT name="Car"> because I have a query to determine the > > existence of a kind_of Car 'Corolla' irrespective of the > case (upper > > or lower) in which it has been written and where in the > hierarchy it > > exists. How will it be possible using XSLT? > > > Thanks > Rahil
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