Re: How to select an attribute on the current node or

ancestor-or-self::*[@data][1]/@data

Michael Kay
Saxonica

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 2:06 AM, Philipp Kursawe<phil.kursawe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello,

given the following xml:

<node data="foo">
   <text id="1" data="bar"/>
   <text id="2"/>
</node>

I would like to know the XPath expression to select @data which
results in "bar" for @id=1 and "foo" for @id=2.

The general idea is to search for the attribute in the anchestor if
the current node does not contain the attribute all the way up to the
root node.

Thanks for your help!

Phil