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RE: getting all nodes from a certain level in the xml hierarchy
- From: "James Fuller" <james dot fuller at o-idev dot com>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:41:42 +0100
- Subject: RE: [xsl] getting all nodes from a certain level in the xml hierarchy
- Reply-to: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
you could look at the dir utility on www.bayes.co.uk
and u could have a matched template
<xsl:template match="Folder[count(descendant::*)=desired_node_depth]">
</xsl:template>
gl, jim fuller
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com]On Behalf Of Peter Menzel
> Sent: 27 September 2002 10:14
> To: XSL-List@lists.mulberrytech.com
> Subject: [xsl] getting all nodes from a certain level in the xml
> hierarchy
>
>
> Hallo
>
> my problem is the following:
> my XML document maps the structure of a folder tree (just like
> the unix file
> hierarchy) but without files, e.g.:
>
> <Folder NAME="/">
> <Folder NAME="a"/>
> <Folder NAME="b">
> <Folder NAME="ba"/>
> <Folder NAME="bb"/>
> </Folder>
> ...
> <Folder NAME="z">
> <Folder NAME="za">
> ...
> <Folder NAME="very deep folder"/>
> ...
> </Folder>
> </Folder
> </Folder>
>
> The real folder NAMEs are like real folder names, and have no specific
> length or content.
> The depth of the deepest node is unknown.
>
> I need to access all nodes that have the same depth.
> So first i need root, then all direct childs of root, then all nodes that
> are two levels under root, because i want tu put them in a table like:
>
> level | 0 | 1 | 2 ... x
> ------+---+-----+------ ---------------
> | / | a | ba very deep folder
> | | b | bb
> ...
> | | z | za
>
> first I started to try <xsl:for-each select="//Folder"> and then
> <xsl:for-each select="//Folder/Folder"> but because I do not know
> the depth
> of the tree, this won't work..
>
> Can anybody help me, what is the direction i should go?
> I don't think there is an easy way to use XPath for adressing nodes on the
> same level?
>
> Nice greetings, Peter
>
>
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