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David White | 2 Aug 2006 17:32

XPath and Ranges


Hello All,

Is it possible to use Xpath to select a range of nodes.

<chapter>
<title>X</title>
<para>
<para>
<title>Y</title>
</chapter>

I would like an Xpath statement that would select //title[1] THROUGH //title[2] and include all nodes
between.  Is this possible?

I'm currently using XMLSpy professional but not having much luck finding a solution.

Thanks,

David White

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David Carlisle | 2 Aug 2006 18:13

Re: XPath and Ranges


This is the wrong list (it is for formal comments on the xpath
specification, ratherthan on xpath expample problems), you want
xsl-list <at> lists.mulberrytech.com 

but in xpath2

/chapter/(title[1]/(.,following-sibling::node()) except title[2]/(.,following-sibling::node())

is probably the most literal translation into xpath, but others are
possible eg

for $end in /chapter/title[2]
return
/chapter/(title[1]/(.,following-sibling::node()[. <<  $end],$end)

In XPath1 it's probably hard to do but in xpath1+xslt1 (so you can define
variables) then again it's possible.

David