RE: [xml-dev] Simple xpath software request

["Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@microsoft.com>]

Well, there is an XSLT stylesheet that gives you the absolute XPath of
each node in a document:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/code/default.asp?url=/code/sample.asp?url=/msd
n-files/026/002/676/msdncompositedoc.xml
This is standard XSLT so could be run in Xalan.  But probably even
easier if you already have a reference to a node is to just write a
function that recursively grabs the node.Parent and concats the name and
position (which is really all the XSLT is doing).


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kris Thompson [mailto:race@boulder.net]
> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 11:59 AM
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: [xml-dev] Simple xpath software request
> 
> I must have missed it but I feel like my searching has been complete.
I
> am looking for a way, using one of the more popular parsers idealy
> Xerces, to if given a node in a document return the XPath string
> representation of that node.  Something like the following would be
nice
> 
> public static String getXPath(Document doc, Node node)
> 
>     where node is the node that I want the XPath expression on and doc
> is the document for which this node exist.
> 
> If this does not exist in any popular parsers than has anyone created
> this piece of code for which I could have?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Kris Thompson
> 
> 
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