This is more of an xpath path question. Please refer to a great reference: http://dpawson.co.uk/
Here is what I would do: /organization/item[ title = 'Bio1' ]/@identifierref -Kevin -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 2:33 AM To: xindice-users@xml.apache.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Finding a Parent Node after Xpath Search Hi, How do I get the parent node, using XpathQueryService. My Sample Xml is : <organization> <title>Biology</title> <item identifier="S0" identifierref="R1"> <title>Bio1</title> </item> <item identifier="S1" identifierref="R2"> <title>Bio2</title> <item identifier="S2" identifierref="R3"> <title>Bio3</title> </item> </item> </organization> I want to search title node string "Bio1" by Xpath and after searching it I want the corresponding "identifierref" of the parent node of title. How do I get it.... Avik Chatterjee
