Re: [xml-dev] API for rewriting XPath

[Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@gmail.com>]

This can be done in pure XSLT.


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On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 12:03 AM,  <rjelliffe@allette.com.au> wrote:
> Does anyone know of an API or program for re-writing XPaths?
>
> The particular re-write I want is not the usual one of removing forward
> axes--there are several libraries for that--but of getting an XPath with
> the final location step as the first step.
>
> I.e.
>
> input:
>   a/b/c[@d]/e[@f]
>
> output:
>   e[@f][parent::c[@d][parent::b[parent::a]]]
>
> Any pointers?
>
> Cheers
> Rick
>
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