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From: Dylan Nicholson <wizofaus@-------.--->
To: NULL
Date: 9/1/2007 2:51:00 AM


On Sep 1, 8:22 am, rich...@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) wrote:
> In article <1188597678.852587.226...@x40g2000prg.googlegroups.com>,
> Dylan Nicholson  <wizof...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> > Just wondering if anyone knew if it was possible to select <input>
> >> > elements in an XHTML document for which there exists a corresponding
> >> > <label> element
> >> Try:
> >> //input[//label/@for=@id or ancestor::label]
> >Nope, that only detects label elements that have a "for" and an "id"
> >attribute with the same value.
>
> No it doesn't.  Ignoring the ancestor::label bit, it returns <input>
> elements whose id attribute is equal to some <label> element's for
> attribute.  Both //label/@for and @id are evaluated with the <input>
> element as the context node.
>
> There are cases that have the difficulty you refer to, but this isn't
> one of them.
>
> -- Richard

Right you are...my apologies to the original poster!

Thanks,

Dylan

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