XPath from Node

[Mike Engelhart <me...@earthtrip.com>]

Does anyone have any sample code that would return a valid XPath from an
abitrary node.  What I'm trying to do is walk a DOM and return an XPath at
every node. 
I've managed to fail miserably at attempting this :-)

Thanks,
Mike

Re: XPath from Node

[Brian Hüttner <ti...@Informatik.Uni-Bremen.DE>]

Hey,

Mike Engelhart schrieb:
> 
> Does anyone have any sample code that would return a valid XPath from an
> abitrary node.  What I'm trying to do is walk a DOM and return an XPath at
> every node.
> I've managed to fail miserably at attempting this :-)

I am working on a project where we face the same problem. Our
solution is to walk through the DOM and getting the XPath with
the node() function, i.e. 
	<element>
		<test>foo</test>
	</element>
would be (if element is the first element in the dcoument):
- element	/child::node()[1]
- test		/child::node()[1]/child::node()[1]
- text foo	/child::node()[1]/child::node()[1]/child::node()[1]

But be careful with attributes because attributes won't be matched
by the node() function. Get them with .../attribute::*[]

Hope this helps.

Best regards Brian
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XalanC format-number() and redirect extension?

[David Braaten <da...@multiactive.com>]

Will anyone be doing any work on the format-number function or the redirect
extension
anytime soon?

I can work around not having the redirect extension for my project, but the
format number is
required.

If no one is planning to work on format-number, I suppose I will have to do
something with it myself...

tia