>Is there a utility in Xalan that, given a dom, will construct an XPath >(string or some other representation) from the root to a given node?
I don't believe so. Proposed solutions have been posted to this mailing list; check the archives. There's an open question re where to put such a routine -- does it belong with the DOM impelementation (eg in Xerces), with the XPath implementation (eg in Xalan), or in a utility package (which would probably make the xml-commons project the right host)? I'd lean slightly toward xml-commons, simply because it should be made reusable with any implementation of either DOM or XPath. As you noted, the hardest part of doing this properly is generating/reconciling the list of prefixes needed by the XPath. ______________________________________ Joe Kesselman / IBM Research
