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Subject: Efficient XPath 2.0 expression to return each <row> element for which there are other <row> elements having the same navaid?
From: "Costello, Roger L. costello@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 18:07:26 -0000
 Efficient XPath 2.0 expression to return each <row>  e
Hi Folks,

I have a large XML document containing data about airports around the world:

<airports>
    <row>
        <navaid>A</navaid>
    </row>
    <row>
        <navaid>B</navaid>
    </row>
    <row>
        <navaid>A</navaid>
    </row>
</airports>

Notice that there is only one <row> element having the B navaid, but two <row>
elements having the A navaid.

I want an XPath 2.0 expression to return each <row> element for which there
are other <row> elements having the same navaid. For the above example, I want
the XPath expression to return the first and third <row> elements.

Here is one way to do it:

//row[navaid = (preceding-sibling::row/navaid,
following-sibling::row/navaid)]

Eek! That is horribly inefficient. I ran that XPath expression on my XML
document and it took a long time to finish.

Is there an efficient XPath 2.0 expression to solve this problem?

Note: I am running the XPath expression from Oxygen's XPath evaluator, not
from an XSLT program.

/Roger

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