XPATH and concat curiosity

[Ranadhir Nag]

We have an xml viz.
<element>
<component>....</component>
<event>....</event>
<event>....</event>
<event>....</event>
<event>....</event>
</element>

The number of events will be dynamic.
For a relevant component,we need to return the cooresponding events pipe-delimited.
We arrive at the particular component through SelectNodes - is there a smart,concide XPATH expression which can allow me to return the set of events in the way we want,rather than recursing through the set.
Note that component and event nodes are parent(ed) by 'element'.
We are using javascript.

[Paul Clapham]

Not sure that I understand this. The XPath expression to identify those nodes is just "/element/component/event". Of course that won't give you the contents of the nodes, concatenated, with pipes delimiting the data, but XPath doesn't do that sort of thing anyway. You would have to do that in your Javascript code, but you wouldn't need recursion.

[vinay kumar]

Assuming you need this using xslt, use keys as below:

Define a key
<xsl:key name="EventKey" match="/element/event" use="../component"/>

Now use the key to get the event nodes using component
key('EventKey','WhatEverThecomponent') returns all the event nodes

vinay
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