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Re: FW: xpath expression needed
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- Subject: Re: FW: [xsl] xpath expression needed
- From: Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 16:24:59 -0400
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At 03:25 PM 10/2/01, you wrote:
>I want to match all nodes whose following-sibling::level1 has the same value
>for @type. So in this case, only the first 'level1' node would be matched.
>
>How about:
>
>level1[@type = following-sibling::level1/@type]
>
>Would that work?
Yes, except for the small but very important detail that this will give you
every level1 that have *any* following-sibling::level1 with a matching @type.
To check just the directly following sibling level1, amend to:
level1[@type = following-sibling::level1[1]/@type]
The rule for node-set equality is in the XPath spec, 3.4. That's what you
have inside the predicate (comparing the node-set consisting of @type to
the node-set consisting of following-sibling::level1/@type).
Cheers,
Wendell
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