Mike wrote:
> I am writing a post-processor for an existing XML document (that I have
> no control over), this entails a lot of inserting and deleting of
> nodes.
> 
> I don't want to have to hard code the (schema-defined) 'parent' XPath
> of every node (so that I know what to clone and where to insert). It
> seems that there should be someway of dynamically determining (via the
> schema?) the 'parent' paths such that I am able to create valid
> documents.
> 
> Does anything like this exist or is it just wishful thinking?
> 
> (I use 'parent' here not to mean the physical parent of a node, rather
> the logical parent from the schema's point of view (as in if I clone
> this node then I really have to clone this entire path and insert it
> here)).

I think MSXML 4 when validating XML instance files against XML schemas 
tries to display the XPath to the relevant element e.g.
   /root/el1[3]/el2[4]/el3[5]
and it is certainly possible to construct such paths using XSLT. I can't 
point you to an existing XSLT stylesheet or other XML software tools 
that solves that.

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	Martin Honnen
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