Re: Provision in Xpath to get a handle to the parent???

[David_N_Bertoni]

No, there is no way to say "give me the parent where it would go if you
don't find it".

Perhaps you just want to search for name elements without the attribute?
For example:

   /person/name[count(@serialid) = 0]
or

   /person/name[not(@serialid)]

would work.

Dave



                                                                                       
                            
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Hi,
In my application i may need to add/insert attributes in a xml_tree.
Eg: If the doc looks like

  <person>
    <name>Dave</name>
    <age>20</age>
    <Sex>Male</Sex>
  </person>

  But would like to add an attribute: serialid

  <person>
    <name serialid="02">Dave</name>
    <age>20</age>
    <Sex>Male</Sex>
  </person>


I therefore use the xpath with /person/name/@serialid to traverse the tree.

But when i use
xObj = contextXPath->execute(......)
i get a null, which is true because this attribute does not exist as of
now.

But is there any way i could get a reference to the node <name> so that i
can use setAttribute and set this new attribute.

Any help would be appreciated.

regards,
Mohammed Zubair.
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