yup that worked... thanks =)

-----Original Message-----
From: Prakash [mailto:prakash.subramaniam@o...]
Sent: Wednesday, 3 August 2005 2:50 PM
To: Paul Popiel
Cc: 'xml-dev@l...'
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Simple XPath question


How about this?

/A [.//C/@name ="something"]

Note: not tested.

Thanks,
Prakash

Paul Popiel wrote:

>if i have an element structure something along the lines of:
>
>...
><A>
> <B>
>   <C name = something/>
> </B>
></A>
>
>whats a clean xpath expression to get the element A which has a child
>element C with @name=something
>
>thanks in advance
>
>paul popiel
>
>
>
>
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