Hi, Thanks a lot for the quick help. Works like a charm :)
best regards, Roman > -----Original Message----- > From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:hussein at xmlmind.com] > Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 11:27 AM > To: Huditsch, Roman (LNG-VIE) > Cc: xmleditor-support at xmlmind.com > Subject: Re: [XXE] Selecting descendant > > Huditsch, Roman (LNG-VIE) wrote: > > > > I would like to select a node with > > <cfg:command name="selectNode" > > parameter="ancestorOrSelf[implicitElement] aktuelles"/> > <cfg:command > > name="selectNode" parameter="descendant[implicitElement] > > kunden-kategorie"/> > > > > my structure looks as follows > > > > <aktuelles> > > <meta> > > <autor></autor> > > <erscheinungsdatum></erscheinungsdatum> > > <letztbearbeitungsdatum></letztbearbeitungsdatum> > > <kategoriezuordnung> > > <kunden-kategorie name="art-id"/> > > <glp-themenkategorie></glp-themenkategorie> > > </kategoriezuordnung> > > <registereintrag></registereintrag> > > </meta> > > <titel></titel> > > ... > > > > I haven't found a solution to select <kunden-kategorie> from > > everywhere in my document. > > I suppose that the descnedant selection doesn't work in my case > > because of "If no descendants of selected node were previously > > selected, searches a descendant node along the first child axis." > > Yes. > > > Is there a simple way to select a specific element node in > my document > > (maybe with an absolute path)? > > Sure, forget about command "selectNode" and instead, use > macro-command element <set> and an XPath variable mapped to > the selection in XXE. See > http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/commands/selecti > on_vars.html > > > >

