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   Re: [xml-dev] XSLT & XPATH absolute path

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The ancestor-or-self:: axis pretty much gives you that information.

Assuming your node is an element named "findme", you can do something like this:

<xsl:template match="findme">
   <xsl:text>/</xsl:text>
   <xsl:for-each select="ancestor-or-self::*">
      <xsl:value-of select="name()"/><xsl:text>/</xsl:text>
   </xsl:for-each>
   <xsl:text>&#xA;</xsl:text>
</xsl:template>

An xsl:choose can help you figure out which nodes are elements versus text or attributes, in which case you can deal with the last path segment separately by using the "ancestor::" axis instead of "ancestor-or-self::".

Alejandro López wrote:
> Hello everybody.
> 
> Does anybody know if there is a way in xpath to know the absolute path of a
> node in order to use with transformation functions?
> 
> Thanks
> 
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