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[Just Curious]

Hello,

I am doing some XSLT tranformations. I have a pretty complicated XML
document with high level of nesting. I am looking for a tool that
gives me the "hierarchial path" to the element I select for example if
in the xml below - I select <City>XY</City> - I want to get
"Address/Address/City"

<Addresses>
<Address>
<City>XY</City>
</Address>
</Addresses>

Are there any tools that can achieve this?

Thank you.

AZXML

 

[Edwin Dankert]

You could use our tool, the 'Exchanger XML Editor' for this. Our editor will
give you the XPath to the current selected element in either Viewer, Editor
or Outliner mode.

http://www.exchangerxml.com/

Regards,
Edwin Dankert
Cladonia Ltd.
http://www.cladonia.com/


in message
Hello,

I am doing some XSLT tranformations. I have a pretty complicated XML
document with high level of nesting. I am looking for a tool that
gives me the "hierarchial path" to the element I select for example if
in the xml below - I select <City>XY</City> - I want to get
"Address/Address/City"

<Addresses>
<Address>
<City>XY</City>
</Address>
</Addresses>

Are there any tools that can achieve this?

Thank you.

AZXML

 

[C. M. Sperberg-McQueen]

Hello,

I am doing some XSLT tranformations. I have a pretty complicated XML
document with high level of nesting. I am looking for a tool that
gives me the "hierarchial path" to the element I select for example if
in the xml below - I select <City>XY</City> - I want to get
"Address/Address/City"

<Addresses>
<Address>
<City>XY</City>
</Address>
</Addresses>

Are there any tools that can achieve this?

An XSLT template of the following form will return
what you want, which is what old SGML hands still call
the fully-qualified generic identifier (FQGI).

<xsl:template match="*" mode="showpath">
<xsl:apply-templates select="parent::*" mode="showpath"/>
<xsl:text>/</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="name()"/>
</xsl:template>

-C. M. Sperberg-McQueen

 

[Just Curious]

Thank you all. You have been both very helpful! It is exactly what I needed.