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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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