RE: [xsl] Xpath problem

["Kanthi Damodaran" <kdsm17 at hotmail dot com>]

Thanks Jeff for the reply.  The problem I am having is not specifying the 
location path of the node but getting the correct node from the DOM.  Let me 
try to explain with an example.  I have the following XML DOM

<Enclosed>
   <Outer>
      <value>21110</value>
   </Outer>
</Enclosed>
<Enclosed>
   <Outer>
       <value>21119</value>
   </Outer>
</Enclosed>
<Enclosed>
   <Outer>
      <value>2111</value>
   </Outer>
</Enclosed>

I want to get at the node where the value element is 2111.
     ie //Outer[value='2111']

But the problem is that it goes to the node that matches just the first four 
digits if it exists in the DOM ... so it goes to the node where value = 
21110.  So I am not able to specify that it should go to the first node that 
exactly matches 2111.

Thanks
Kan


>From: Jeff Beadle <Jbeadle@manh.com>
>Reply-To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
>To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
>Subject: RE: [xsl] Xpath problem
>Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 16:17:56 -0500
>
>Hello Kan,
>
>from a ancestor of the desired "value" attribute whose content is '2111':
>
>    //*[@value='2111']
>
>
>or from anywhere:
>
>    /*//*[@value='2111']
>
>
>But, be advised that these will bring back all elements (any element) that
>has an attribute named "value" and whose value is '2111'.
>
>If you expected the possiblity of many elements returned, but only care
>about the first then you append another predicate to the end of the first
>one to return the first node:
>
>    //*[@value='2111'][1]
>
>
>or from anywhere:
>
>    /*//*[@value='2111'][1]
>
>
>But since you are using "selectSingleNode" you wouldn't have to worry about
>this, it'll always just return the first node from the list of elements
>found.
>
>You may want to look up some information on XPath "Predicates" and how they
>work.
>
>
>-Jeff
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Kanthi Damodaran [mailto:kdsm17@hotmail.com]
>Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 3:30 PM
>To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
>Subject: [xsl] Xpath problem
>
>
>Hi -
>
>This might seems like a really silly question, dur to my unfamiliarity with
>XPath syntax and functions.  Here is the problem.
>
>I want to specify a path to a specific value in my XML Dom ie Path =
>"//value='2111' and I did this by using the selectSingleNode method of the
>DOM.  But the problem is that it also picks up following values '21112',
>21113' etc.  How do I specify that I want the node ONLY if it is '2111'?
>
>Thanks in advance for the help.
>Kan
>
>
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