XPATH Question

[Sam Miller]

I query a xml document against an xpath (something like /Txn//Address) and it return a list of result nodes. Now I need to know each node and its complete xpath.
How do I get it?

[Dave Lenton]

Unfortunately this is a bit tricky. For any given XML element, the chances are that there are several different XPaths to get there. As far as I know, the common XML parsers don't have methods for providing XPaths between two elements because of this - it just wouldn't know which XPath to give. It would be possible to write your own one though.....

[Madhav Lakkapragada]

Dave,

Am I missing something or are you saying there is no equivalent to

xsl:for-each



- m

[Dave Lenton]

Originally posted by Madhav Lakkapragada:
Dave,

Am I missing something or are you saying there is no equivalent to

xsl:for-each



- m

Hope not! I thought that Sam was asking for a method that takes an element and returns an XPath. Maybe I got the wrong end of the stick.

[Madhav Lakkapragada]

Originally posted by Dave Lenton:


Hope not! I thought that Sam was asking for a method that takes an element and returns an XPath. Maybe I got the wrong end of the stick.

Umm...from what I understood, it takes an XPath (/Txn//Address) and returns a list of elements. Now, we want the XPath's for each of the Nodes in the list.

Maybe Sam or someone else could clarify.

- m