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Subject: RE: [xsl] Xpath expression for nested elements with same name
From: "Simon Shutter" <simon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 08:49:50 -0800
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This is a belated thank you to Michael Kay and George Cristian Bina for
their assistance with this question.
Simon
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Kay [mailto:mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: February 1, 2007 2:29 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [xsl] Xpath expression for nested elements with same name
>
> I would like to return all nodes that are descendents of <g
> id='match_this'>.
g[@id='match_this']/descendant::node()
> Can you help with the path expression please? I would like to return
> the node set
>
> <g>
> <rect x="100" y="100" width="10" height="10" />
> <rect x="300" y="100" width="10" height="10" />
> <rect x="500" y="100" width="10" height="10" />
> </g>
>
Hmm. That looks to me like the serialization of a single <g> node, not like
the serialization of a node-set containing 4 element nodes and 6 whitespace
text nodes, which is what g[@id='match_this']/descendant::node() will give
you.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
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