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(OOOPS...sent that last email before finishing...sorry about that...) > I think you want to know... Hmm...I don't think I fully explained what I was looking for very well. ;o) We store out entire site structure in XML. We want to make an RSS feed that will return the most recently updated pages that fall underneath a specific node of the menu. So, if my structure was: Home About - staff - - mary - - bob Contact Downloads I want to be able to say "grab the recently updated pages in the 'staff' section" so I only want to grab staff, mary, and bob, and then sort them by date. The more I look at this, the more I'm confused as to if I want to select descenders or ascenders in the match statement. It appears I could use both methods via different syntax? > if the current eleemnt or ancestor > has a pageID child, so that's > > <xsl:for-each > select="*/menuItem[ancestor-or-self::menuItem/pageID = $pageID]"> Hmm...that doesn't quite work either. Here's some specific Xml: <menuItems> <menuItem> <pageID>938</pageID> <browserTitle>Home Page</browserTitle> <lastUpdate>2006/06/12</lastUpdate> <menuItem> <pageID>998</pageID> <browserTitle>District Administration</browserTitle> <lastUpdate>2006/06/06</lastUpdate> </menuItem> </menuItems> I want to pass in the pageID of '938' and, as such, grab both nodes in the above XML. I think, in english, I want to say "grab every menuItem that has a pageID of 938 or is a child of a menuItem with a pageID of 938" Said that way, I should probably use descendants. I think I'm confused between the concept of 'is a child of' vs. 'has a parent of'. -Darrel
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