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From: someone_else_of_course@-------.--.--
To: NULL
Date: 8/3/2006 10:29:00 AM


Thankyou Martin, This will work great

Martin Honnen wrote:
> someone_else_of_course@h... wrote:
>
>
> > <table>
> >      <col>keycol</col>
> >      <col>valuecol</col>
> >      <tr>
> >             <td>1</td>
> >             <td>value1</td>
> >      </tr>
> >      <tr>
> >             <td>2</td>
> >             <td>value2</td>
> >      </tr>
> > </table>
> >
> >
> > I'd like to be able to query this as one would a table in SQL something
> > like "select valuecol from table where keycol=2"
> >
> > but I need this in an xpath so /table/tr/td
>
> In terms of XPath there is no relation between those col elements and
> their values and the td elements.
> You can however access the td elements by their position e.g.
>    /table/tr[td[1] = 2]/td[2]/text()
> selects the text content of the second td element in the tr element for
> which the first td element has the content 2.
> 
> -- 
> 
> 	Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
> 	http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

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