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RE: filtering by ancestor
- From: "Michael Kay" <michael dot h dot kay at ntlworld dot com>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 23:04:06 +0100
- Subject: RE: [xsl] filtering by ancestor
- Reply-to: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
> I'm writing a breadth-first parser but I want to restrict the
> parse to /resultset/result[1] So at any given node I need the
> subset of following::* that has /resultset/result[1] as an ancestor.
>
Some processors have an xx:intersect() extension function:
xx:intersect(/resultset/result[1]//*, following::*)
In XPath 2.0 you can do
/resultset/result[1]//*[. follows current()]
which might be rather more efficient if the subtree is small compared
with the full document.
Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael.H.Kay@ntlworld.com
work: Michael.Kay@softwareag.com
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