If you want to find the last (in document order) element whose depth
is equal to the maximum element depth in the document, then I believe
this is impossible to select with a single XPath 1.0 expression.
If you can use XSLT 1.0, then below is one possible solution:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
<xsl:template match="*[not(*)]">
<xsl:copy-of select=
"self::*[not(//*[count(ancestor::*) > count(current()/ancestor::*)])
and not(following::*[count(ancestor::*) >=
count(current()/ancestor::*)])
]
"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Cheers,
Dimitre
On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 12:46 PM, Rick Quatro rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to find the deepest, last element in an xml file. When I use
> this xpath 1.0 statement:
>
> //*[last()]
>
> it returns all nine of the last elements. I want to get the <p>4</p> element
> because it is the last of the last. Note that I don't know ahead of time
> what element name it will be. I tried this
>
> //*[last()][last()]
>
> but it still returns all of them. Any help would be appreciated. Here is my
> xml:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <topic>
> <body>
> <p>
> <ul>
> <li>
> <p>1</p>
> </li>
> <li>
> <p>2</p>
> </li>
> <li>
> <p>3</p>
> </li>
> <li>
> <p>4</p>
> </li>
> </ul>
> </p>
> </body>
> </topic>
>
> Rick Quatro
> Carmen Publishing Inc.
> 585-366-4017
> rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
>
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Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev
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