xml-dev - Re: XPath question..perhaps naive..

["Christopher R. Maden" <crism@lexica.net>]

At 19:43 16-11-2000 -0800, Jack Lincoln wrote:
>Hey there..

Hey, Jack.  [For those of you who don't know, Jack is the one who did the 
actual work behind the prototype XML browser presented at 
<URL:http://www.oreilly.com/%7Ecrism/xtech2k/>.]

>is there an XPath that would select all parent nodes having a certain
>tagname?
>sort of the reverse of ".//myTagName"

It's not clear exactly what you're asking for.

In a match pattern, all elements that are parents of a certain element type:

    *[myTagName]

This will also work in a select pattern to find all elements that are 
children of the current node and are parents of a certain element type.

In a select pattern to find all elements that are descendants of the 
current node that are parents of a certain element type:

    .//*[myTagName]

In a select pattern to find all elements anywhere in the document that are 
parents of a certain element type:

    //*[myTagName]

>if this is not the appropriate forum for a question such as this..
>sorry.. but please tell me where a more appropriate forum could be found.

You might try the XSL list: <URL:http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list/>.

-Chris
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