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Help with an XPATH query

From: MichaelD@-----------.---------.---
To: NULL
Date: 1/4/2007 8:27:00 AM

I'm building a little quiz application, the xml document that generates the 
quiz has questions with the following basic structure:

<question>
	<theText>What is the capitol of the world?</theText>
	<response correct="no">London</response>
	<response correct="yes">None</response>
	<response correct="no">New York</response>	
	<feedbackCorrect>Good Job!</feedbackCorrect>
	<feedbackIncorrect>You are silly!</feedbackIncorrect>
	<hint>There IS no capitol of the World!</hint>
	<directionsHome>Click on the link to return home, goofball.</directionsHome>
</question>

In JavaScript, I'm trying to build a multidimensional array holding all the 
questions and their various parts.  Everything is fine, except I can't figure 
out how to load the 3 "responses".  My 2 statements below work fine if the 
first 2 "response" nodes have the @correct set to "no".  However, I'd LIKE it 
to work so they select the 2 "response" nodes with the @correct attribute set 
to "no", regardless of the order the "response" nodes are in (for example, 
the "question" node above, where the second "response" node has the @correct 
attribute set to "yes".


questionsArray[i][z]["theFirstWrongResponse"]= 
questionNodes.item(z).selectSingleNode("response[1][@correct='no']");

questionsArray[i][z]["theSecondWrongResponse"]= 
questionNodes.item(z).selectSingleNode("response[2][@correct='no']");

I understand WHY the above 2 don't work, and I realize I could easily fix 
the problem by either requiring that the XML be structured such that the 
first 2 "responses" are always "incorrect" nodes and the third holds the 
correct answer; or by restructuring the XML to use something like 
"wrongResponse1", "wrongResponse2", and "rightResponse" as my node names, but 
in the interest of learning something new, I'd like to see if there is an 
XPATH expression that can do what I'm trying to do??????

Thanks! - Mike D.
				



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