RE: [xml] XPath / LibXML question

[Alan_McCarthy scee net]

Well, that certainly returns just the one result correctly...

I take it from your comments about it not being optimized that it will
still find all results before returning the first, rather than just
terminating at the first match?

Thanks

Alan


"Buchcik, Kasimier" <k buchcik 4commerce de> wrote on 01/06/2006 15:45:36:

> Hi,
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xml-bounces gnome org [mailto:xml-bounces gnome org] On
> > Behalf Of Buchcik, Kasimier
> > Hi,
> >
> > As Aron already pointed out, the position() should be of
> > help. You need to select the descendant-or-self or descendant
> > axis.
> > Your expression could look like this:
> > "//instance[ att2='2' and
> parent::instances/parent::item[ att1='1']][1]"
>
> Whoops, sorry this should read:
> "/descendant::instance[ att2='2' and
> parent::instances/parent::item[ att1='1']][1]"
>
> Regards,
>
> Kasimier


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