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

You guys are amazingly quick!
Thanks a lot!

Lets see if the old msxml on Windows CE 6.0 understands that :)

Phil

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 15/04/2011 07:33, Brandon Ibach wrote:
>>
>> ancestor-or-self::*[@data][1]/@data
>>
>>
> Or if you prefer, (ancestor-or-self::*/@data)[last()]
>
> Michael Kay
> Saxonica
>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 2:06 AM, Philipp Kursawe<phil.kursawe@xxxxxxxxx>
>> B wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> given the following xml:
>>>
>>> <node data="foo">
>>> B  <text id="1" data="bar"/>
>>> B  <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