Re: [xml-dev] Simple XPath question

[Prakash <prakash.subramaniam@oracle.com>]

An alternate solution, if you know for sure that C is the child of B and B is the child of A,

/A [B/C/@name ="something"]

Note: Not tested

Thanks,
Prakash

Paul Popiel wrote:

want to get element A not C.

also would prefer to stay away from using .. if possible.

-----Original Message-----
From: Alexander Johannesen [mailto:alexander.johannesen@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 3 August 2005 11:42 AM
To: Paul Popiel
Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Simple XPath question


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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