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Content with Style - Comment #1 on Find your node: Advanced XPATH commands

Fri, 22 Sep 2006 04:15:19 -0400

A little while ago I was asked to look at some XSLT for someone who had done some changes to a template they didn’t originally create, but who now couldn’t figure out what the hell was going on. You know, the usual stuff.

Content with Style - Comment #2 on Find your node: Advanced XPATH commands

Wed, 31 Jan 2007 07:06:40 -0500

I’m having an xpath issue trying to work out how to select nodes where two child nodes are present.

My XML format is along these lines:









       1
       3




       2
       3
       4



Because of the nature of the products they may belong to one or more category, and I need to be able to filter by one or more category, so I’m trying to do a query along the lines of:

“product/categories[cat=3 and cat=2]/../@name”

constructing the cat=X part on the fly

I did consider comma seperating my cat ids in the product and using contains(), but then I’d get all the 22 containing 2 type problems

Any pointers very gratefully received

Content with Style - Comment #3 on Find your node: Advanced XPATH commands

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 16:45:59 -0500

Hey there.
Try to use count() and value():


//product/categories[count(cat[text() = '2']) > 0 and count(cat[text() = '3']) > 0]/../@name

You can create that in a loop as well :)