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To: Paul Popiel <PaulP@advancedengine.com>
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Simple XPath question
From: Alexander Johannesen <alexander.johannesen@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 13:41:58 +1000
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On 8/3/05, Paul Popiel <PaulP@advancedengine.com> wrote:
> whats a clean xpath expression to get the element A which has a child
> element C with @name=something

Clean? Hmm. :)

   //C[@name='something' and ../../node::name() = 'A']

{untested, of course}


Alex
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