need example of recursive xpath

Does anyone have an example of a recursive xpath expression? ie. an xpath that can be used in a repeat to walk an entire tree of unknown depth?




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Jeremiah,

I'm not sure what that would look like, as XPath's intent was more to
find specific targets in the document.

If you can pass the document through XSLT, then you can indeed recurse
with templates to ... shred ... the document down to each element.

To traverse either attributes or nodes:

<xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/>

Cheers,
Hank

On Jan 22, 2010, at 3:52 AM, Jeremiah Jahn wrote:

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Hank Ratzesberger
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Jeremiah,

Not sure if that's what you are looking for, but what about this:

http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/how-to/edit-hierarchy

-Erik

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thanks, thats what I was looking for. I have to build editors and display tables of content etc. for large nests of elements where I won't know the depth, nor the name of the element. Only once I get to one, I can lookup it's type, and display it or it's input correctly.


On Jan 22, 2010, at 11:02 AM, Erik Bruchez wrote:


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