Alas there's no index for an attribute name in absence of an element name, 
which is why you can't express it with cts:query objects. You can pass in a 
variety of element names if the set is reasonable. Otherwise you'll need to do 
something like use collections.

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On Aug 19, 2011, at 12:47 PM, Keith Breinholt <[email protected]> wrote:

> I want to display a set of documents that have a common attribute on the root 
> node.  However, the root nodes of the documents can have any tag name such as 
> <html>, <xml>, ...
> 
> I can do this easily with XPath similar to this 
> 
>   element()/@lang[. eq 'eng']
> 
> However, I'd like to use search:search for pagination and sorting of results. 
>  The problem is I don't know a way to specify a generic parent for an 
> attribute in a cts query.
> 
> Any ideas or help is very appreciated.
> 
> -- 
> Keith
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