Dinesh,



The axis you want is the ancestor axis:



<xsl:for-each select="ancestor::*">
  <td>spacer</td>
</xsl:for-each>
<td><xsl:value-of select="@name"/></td>

The ancestor nodes are traversed by the for-each in document order 
(top-down), but since you're only putting out spacers that's okay here.



You can find more about the ancestor and ancestor-or-self axes in any 
decent introduction to XPath location paths (and you should really do this 
before asking hundreds of people on the list).



Good luck,
Wendell

At 01:52 PM 11/25/2003, you wrote:
Hi folks,



Can somebody please let me know of an XPATH expression on how to recursively
walk up a tree.

I have a tree of directories in an XML
<directories>
  <directory name=blah>
    <directory name="blee">
      ... to arbitrary depth
    </directory>
  </directory>
</directories>

I need to put each element into a <tr> and a <td> for each level.
<table>
<tr><td>blah</td></tr>
<tr><td>spacer</td><td>blee</td></tr>
<tr><td>spacer</td><td>spacer</td><td>...</td></tr>

</table>
TIA,
Dinesh

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