Wendell,

Thanks a lot.  Worked like magic.  Regarding doing my home work, I really did 
and XPath is not easily understood :-(

regards,
Dinesh
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 16:56:56 -0500, Wendell Piez wrote
> 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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