I don't remember whether we added a convenience routine for this or not. It's pretty straightforward to hand-code against a DOM, by walking up the parents and building up a string such as "/a:foo[1]/@b:bar"... if you don't consider namespaces. Once you add them, you need to also accumulate those; the simple but ugly solution is to use steps like /*[namespace()=" http://a.com"; and localname()="foo"][1], or you can accumulate a namespace context to use alongside the XPath (but in some cases that will require reconciling conflicting prefixes).
Of course in SAX you can do something similar by maintaining a context stack. An XSLT version of this (minus the namespace ugliness) appeared in my DeveloperWorks article on "styling stylesheets", if that helps at all. ______________________________________ "... Three things see no end: A loop with exit code done wrong, A semaphore untested, And the change that comes along. ..." -- "Threes" Rev 1.1 - Duane Elms / Leslie Fish ( http://www.ovff.org/pegasus/songs/threes-rev-11.html)
