Re: Possible using XPath?

On 27/03/2008, Christoph Boget <christoph.boget@gmail.com> wrote: > Let's say I have the following structure: > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <root> > <child id="c1"> > <child id="gc1"> > <child id="ggc1"/> > <child id="ggc2"/> > </child> > <child id="gc2"> > <child id="ggc3"/> > <child id="ggc4"/> > </child> > </child> > <child id="c2"> > <child id="gc3"> > <child id="ggc5"/> > <child id="ggc6"/> > </child> > <child id="gc4"> > <child id="ggc7"/> > <child id="ggc8"/> > </child> > </child> > </root> > > By using the following XPath query > > //child[@id="gc3"]/child > > I can get the child nodes of "gc1". But what I'd really like to get > is the sub branch/path going back to the root. So instead of just > returning the two nodes > > <child id="ggc5"/> > <child id="ggc6"/> > > I'd like to be able to return the sub branch/path > > <root> > <child id="c2"> > <child id="gc3"> > <child id="ggc5"/> > <child id="ggc6"/> > </child> > </child> > </root> > > Is that possible? Or is this something I'd have to do programatically > using the nodes returned by the XPath query? Basically, I'm just > trying to get a fragment of the larger xml document... //child[@id='gc3']/child/ancestor-or-self::* -robin