I guess I'm not quit following.
As you iterate over the returned List, what does it contain?
<node> or <childNodeA>?
If it contains <node> that node will still have the <childNodeA> in
the document, of course, and as a child.
I'd argue that "/root/node/childNodeA/.." will return the <nodes>
you want.
> It always seems that the last part of the query starts the resulting
> element
Yes, exactly. That's how xpath works. Step-wise.
If you want the parent of the <childNodeA> then add another step,
considint of two dots ".." that steps back up to the parents of
the selected <childNodeA>.
So, exactly this:
/root/node/childNodeA/..
-bob
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Actually,
>
> the @attrib would be unique to each <node>
>
> <root>
> <node attrib="a">
> <childNodeA>text</childNode>
> <childNodeB>text</childNode>
> <childNodeC>text</childNode>
> </node>
> <node attrib="b">
> <childNodeA>text</childNode>
> <childNodeB>text</childNode>
> <childNodeC>text</childNode>
> </node>
> .....
> .....
> .....
> </root>
>
> So in turn I want all <childNodeA> in <node> in the entire document.
>
> /root/node/childNodeA or //childNodeA
>
> result is :
> <childNodeA>text</childNode>
> <childNodeA>text</childNode>
> .....
> .....
>
> But I need <node> to be returned also.
> the results should resemble this :
>
> <node attrib="a">
> <childNodeA>text</childNode>
> </node>
> <node attrib="b">
> <childNodeA>text</childNode>
> </node>
> .....
> .....
> .....
>
> It always seems that the last part of the query starts the resulting
> element
>
> ex: /root/node/nextnode
> result <nextnode>....
>
> ex: /root/node[@ID="x"]
> result <node ID="x">....
>
> ex: /root/node[@ID="x"]/nextnode
> result <nextnode>....
>
> I want to query something like
>
> /root/node/nextnode
>
> and get back
>
> <node><nextnode>....
>
> Now I tried different ways to query, but nothing comes back like
> I need it. Is this even possible?
> Either I get the parent node but also get all the children too, even
> those I have not queried. Or i dont get the parent node at all.
>
> not sure if this is a part of jaxen or a limitation in xpath.
>
> thanks again,
> alex
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bob mcwhirter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 1:54 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Jaxen] Parent node? when searching child elements
>
>
>
> I think it might be as simple as:
>
> /root/node[@attrib='whatever]/childNodeA/..
>
> So, that selects the <node>s with the attribute you want, then select's
> their <childNodeA>, and then selects those <childNodeA>'s parents,
> resulting in a List of <nodes> that match the attribute predicate and
> have a <childNodeA>
>
> Though, the <node> will still have all of its children, include
> <childNodeB> and <childNodeC> nodes.
>
> -bob
>
>
>
> On Wed, 9 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Good day,
> >
> > I'm having alittle trouble here. I can only explain this by example.
> > So I will try to draw it out as clear as possible.
> >
> > <root>
> > <node attrib="">
> > <childNodeA>text</childNode>
> > <childNodeB>text</childNode>
> > <childNodeC>text</childNode>
> > </node>
> > <node attrib="">
> > <childNodeA>text</childNode>
> > <childNodeB>text</childNode>
> > <childNodeC>text</childNode>
> > </node>
> > .....
> > .....
> > .....
> > </root>
> >
> > I would like to search for this query as an example
> "/root/nodeA/childNodeA"
> >
> > Successfully it returns :
> >
> > <childNodeA>text</childNode>
> > <childNodeB>text</childNode>
> > .....
> > .....
> > .....
> >
> > Now this is all good, but I need to get parent of each childNode to be
> > returned
> > also so I can use the @attrib found in the parent for later use.
> >
> > I would a return to looks like this :
> >
> > <node attrib="">
> > <childNodeA>text</childNode>
> > </node>
> > <node attrib="">
> > <childNodeB>text</childNode>
> > </node>
> > .....
> > .....
> > .....
> >
> > How would I setup the query to recieve these results. I did trying using
> > both parent:: and child::, but I either get the parent node along with the
> > rest
> > of the child nodes or i end up with the same childNode result without the
> > parent. Is there any way to resolve this?
> >
> > Thank you very much =)
> > alex
> >
> >
> >
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