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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