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Subject: Re: [xsl] Recursive walk up tree From: "dinesh" <dinesh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 18:12:43 -0500 |
Wendell, Thanks a lot. Worked like magic. Regarding doing my home work, I really did and XPath is not easily understood :-( regards, Dinesh On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 16:56:56 -0500, Wendell Piez wrote > Dinesh, > > The axis you want is the ancestor axis: > > <xsl:for-each select="ancestor::*"> > <td>spacer</td> > </xsl:for-each> > <td><xsl:value-of select="@name"/></td> > > The ancestor nodes are traversed by the for-each in document order > > (top-down), but since you're only putting out spacers that's okay here. > > You can find more about the ancestor and ancestor-or-self axes in > any decent introduction to XPath location paths (and you should > really do this before asking hundreds of people on the list). > > Good luck, > Wendell > > At 01:52 PM 11/25/2003, you wrote: > >Hi folks, > > > >Can somebody please let me know of an XPATH expression on how to recursively > >walk up a tree. > > > >I have a tree of directories in an XML > ><directories> > > <directory name=blah> > > <directory name="blee"> > > ... to arbitrary depth > > </directory> > > </directory> > ></directories> > > > >I need to put each element into a <tr> and a <td> for each level. > ><table> > ><tr><td>blah</td></tr> > ><tr><td>spacer</td><td>blee</td></tr> > ><tr><td>spacer</td><td>spacer</td><td>...</td></tr> > > > ></table> > >TIA, > >Dinesh > > > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > > ====================================================================== > Wendell Piez > mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mulberry Technologies, Inc. > http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street > Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 > Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 > Fax: 301/315-8285 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML > ====================================================================== > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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