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Suppose I have a schema which describes a recursive structure as local elements. Example (pseudo DTD, and pseudo xml I can provide more formal defs if needed ) Element section (text)* Element text ( list | para | bold | #PCDATA )* Element list ( item*) Element item ( text | subheading ) * Element subheading (text)* So for example doc may look like <section> <text>Text <list> <item><para>Item Text</para></item> <item><para>Item Text2</para></item> <item><para>Item Text</para> <list><item><para>More text> </item></list></para></item> </list> </text> </section> The key point is that the schema is recursive, so an xpath (or xslt match) might be section/text section/text/list/item/para section/text/list/item/list/item/list/item/list/item/list/item . Can get really long here !!!! Now suppose I want to avoid an infinite number of XSLT match strings but I want to match say list/item but ONLY within section/text (presume there may be a different list/item locally defined within say subheader) Suggestions on to a good way to do that ? <template match=section/text//list/item > But this might match section/text/subheading/list/item or section/text/list/item/subheading/list/item which I dont want. I only want to match the list/item which is a local element definition below section (recursively),. so the match should select section/text/list/item/list/item/list/item but not section/text/list/item/subheading/list/item ( which I would say match with subheading/list/item subheading/list/item/list/item ) Is there an obvious way to do this ? Its entirely possible that Im asking an impossible question (that is the schemas may simply not allow this restriction in the first place), But Im trying to solve a general problem so asking a general question. This is based on generating match strings from XSD element declarations so its really a XSD question as well Maybe its impossible to describe a schema such that a descendant list/item is distinguishable if its under section or subheading ? Thanks for any suggestion ! -David ---------------------------------------- David A. Lee dlee@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.xmlsh.org ---------------------------------------- David A. Lee dlee@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.xmlsh.org
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