The problem is that in my application I am restricted to specify only ONE 
"rowmapping". But I can specify multiple "columnmappings", like:

 parameter/@id
 parameter/@value
 datatable/rows/row/datum/@id
 datatable/rows/row/datum/@value

But your suggestion seems to imply that what I want cannot be done unless I 
specify multiple "rowmappings"?



"Martin Honnen" <mahotrash@y...> wrote in message 
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> JS wrote:
>> Given the below XML file:
>>
>> <Top>
>>  <Tree id="doc" lang="en" refid="tree">
>>    <blocks>
>>      <block id="block" order="1.1" refid="Type0" type="table">
>>        <parameters>
>>          <parameter id="Name" value="Bob"/>
>>          <parameter id="Position" value="Developer"/>
>>        </parameters>
>>      </block>
>>      <block id="block" order="1.2" refid="Type1" type="table">
>>        <datatables>
>>          <datatable tableid="Type1">
>>            <rows>
>>              <row order="7">
>>                <datum id="a" value="value00"/>
>>                <datum id="b" value="value11"/>
>>                <datum id="c" value="value22"/>
>>              </row>
>>            </rows>
>>          </datatable>
>>        </datatables>
>>      </block>
>>    </blocks>
>>    <outputs>
>>      <output name="out" type="doc"/>
>>    </outputs>
>>  </Tree>
>> </Top>
>>
>> I have defined the following rowmapping:
>>
>> //block/*
>>
>> Now I would like to extract all id and values from :
>>
>> parameters and datum
>>
>> I have tried:
>>
>> parameter/@id
>> parameter/@value
>> datatable/rows/row/datum/@id
>> datatable/rows/row/datum/@value
>>
>> but that only gives me the first entry. Any ideas?
>
> Well you have not provided any details about the context you use XPath in 
> other than saying that you "have defined ... rowmapping". If you treat
>   //block/*
> as a "row" then you have two rows in your sample XML data, the parameters 
> child element of the first block id="block" element and the datatables 
> child element of the second block id="block" element.
>
> Your other XPath expressions certainly select a node-set of id or value 
> attributes but I guess the environment in which you evaluate them simply 
> takes the string value of the first node in that node-set.
>
> So map parameter and datum elements to rows, then you can access the id 
> and value attribute of each row.
>
>
>
>
> -- 
>
> Martin Honnen
> http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/