Joseph, I think you meant to write something in place of that second "XPath" in your first para, no? (XSLT?)
I believe you can do this sort of thing with XQuery, also. Joseph Kesselman wrote: > Remember that XPath just selects a set of nodes. If you want to construct a > new tree based on those nodes, you need something like XPath -- or some > hand-coded equivalent -- to do that construction. > > Selecting only the book and its title and price is easy: > book | book/title | book/price > is one of several ways to express that. But that shows you the individual > nodes; it doesn't display the relationships between them. > > If what you're looking for is a filtered view of an in-memory document > without recopying, you might want to investigate the DOM Level 2 Traversal > chapter. TreeWalker's intended to give you exactly that, though you have to > learn how to work with it. > > ______________________________________ > Joe Kesselman, IBM Next-Generation Web Technologies: XML, XSL and more. > "The world changed profoundly and unpredictably the day Tim Berners Lee > got bitten by a radioactive spider." -- Rafe Culpin, in r.m.filk > > >
