• To: "'Peter V. Mikhalenko'" <peter@m...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: XPath selection
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 16:03:18 +0100
• Importance: Normal
• In-reply-to: <007701c22276$08f95b00$0300a8c0@peter>
• Reply-to: <michael.h.kay@n...>

> Suppose I have such structure:
> 
> <catalog>
>     <group id="1" parent="0" name="Foo1">
>         <group id="5" parent="1" name="Bar1"/>
>         <group id="6" parent="1" name="Bar2"/>
>     </group>
>     <group id="2" parent="0" name="Foo2">
>     </group>
>     <group id="3" parent="0" name="Foo3">
>     </group>
>     <group id="4" parent="0" name="Foo4">
>     </group>
> </catalog>
> 
> I need to select name attribute of all elements group (they 
> can have any level of nest). So, I select all that elements 
> in a such way: catalog//group; but how can I retrieve name 
> attribute? The construction catalog//@name does not work :-( 

catalog//@name is legitimate, but if gives you the name attributes of
all descendant elements, not just the <group> elements.

You want catalog//group/@name

Michael Kay
Software AG
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