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Re: ### Outputting the "full path". Is this possible ?? ###
David Carlisle wrote:
>
> but what if an element contains a sequence of elements...
Yes, be aware that there is no nice way to locate a node by just giving
a path.
You /can/ construct a path from a node, but that path does NOT uniquely
identify that node gain.
You may have to take into account ordinal (array) positions before your
node path becomes definitive.
This puzzled me a bit when coming from web development. I figured an XML
node could be regarded as an extension of a filesystem path ... until I
tried impimenting it.
Although you probably understand what I mean if I was to indicate a path
like "http://my.xml.com/document.xml#/root/chapter/section", the fact is
that that notation CANNOT work.
Working backwards from Davids eg, you will see that it will have to be
something like document.xml#/root[0]/chapter[1]/section[1] before it
becomes meaningful.
This may be long-obvious for some on this list, but it blew me away when
I first got around to thinking about this limitation (or gotcha)
.dan.
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