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Re: XPath statement required pls
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- Subject: Re: [xsl] XPath statement required pls
- From: "Sanjay Pandey/Towers Perrin" <pandeys at towers dot com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 15:20:36 -0400
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It works fine till
//theField/ancestor::*[@name]
but, when I try to get the first ancestor:
//theField/ancestor::*[@name][1]
I get java.lang.StackOverflowError
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Sanjay
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On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 01:44:04PM -0400, Sanjay Pandey/Towers Perrin
wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have XML file as follows:
> <parameter name = "one">
> <level1>
> <level2 name = "a">
> <level3>
> <theField>something</theField>
> </level3>
> </level2>
> <level2 name = "b">
> <level3>
> <theField>something</theField>
> </level3>
> </level2>
> <level2 name = "c">
> <level3>
> <theField>something</theField>
> </level3>
> </level2>
> </level1>
> </parameter>
>
> <parameter name = "two">
> </parameter>
>
> My problem is as follows:
> 1. I need to get all the occurrances of <theField> (... and that is fine,
I
> am getting those, using XPathAPI, into a NodeIterator)
//theField
Find all occurances of <theField>.
> 2. For each field I want to get the nearest Attribute value, so that I
can
> uniquely identify <theField>. Is there a generic way to get the
> nearest Attribute value? In my case it is not always true that the
> attribute for a field (in this case <theField>) is at a particular level
> (in the current case, I can get the attribute value by going 2
levels
> up, ... but then that is what I am trying to find if there is generic
> way to find the nearest Attribute value for a particular field)
//theField/ancestor::*[@name][1]/@name
Find all occurrances of <theField>, then the first ancestor with a name
attribute, then that name attribute.
HTH,
Z.
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