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Re: ancestor:: but to a point?
At 2009-03-10 21:18 -0500, Russ Urquhart wrote:
Our document structure is similar to Docbook, but NOT identical.
Our table structure is like the following:
<GenTable>
<Title>
<table>
<tbody>
<row>
<entry role="">
when an <entry> element has its role attribute equal to hdr, i would
like to get the <GenTable> element that contains that <entry>. I
know that i can get the entry elements via //entry[@role='hdr'] but
is there a way to use ancestor: but only go as far up at <GenTable>,
and not all the way up to the root?
When your current node is at the <entry> element ...
select="ancestor::GenTable[1]"
... will address the *closest* ancestor <GenTable> element. This is
because in XPath the ancestor axis addresses its nodes in reverse
document order, and the [1] predicate is addressing the first in that order.
Trying to get my head fully around Xpath!
Doing so is worth the effort!
I hope this helps.
. . . . . . . . . . . Ken
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