XPath expression

[kcwolle]

Hi,

I'm looking for an XPath expression to get all child elements from an element <ebene> that are not <ebene> elements themselves but have a following or preceing sibling <ebene>.

<buch>
<ebene>
<absatz>Beispieltext</absatz>
<ebene>
<absatz>Ebene 2</absatz>
</ebene>
</ebene>
</buch>

In the above example the only matching node is
<absatz>Beispieltext</absatz>

Any help is appreciated.

Wolfgang

 

[Martin Honnen]

kcwolle wrote:

I'm looking for an XPath expression to get all child elements from an element <ebene> that are not <ebene> elements themselves but have a following or preceing sibling <ebene>.

<buch>
<ebene>
<absatz>Beispieltext</absatz>
<ebene>
<absatz>Ebene 2</absatz>
</ebene>
</ebene>
</buch>

In the above example the only matching node is
<absatz>Beispieltext</absatz>

This does what you want:
//ebene/*[local-name != 'ebene' and (preceding-sibling::ebene or following-sibling::ebene)]

 

[Bjoern Hoehrmann]

* kcwolle wrote in comp.text.xml:

I'm looking for an XPath expression to get all child elements from an element <ebene> that are not <ebene> elements themselves but have a following or preceing sibling <ebene>.

<buch>
<ebene>
<absatz>Beispieltext</absatz>
<ebene>
<absatz>Ebene 2</absatz>
</ebene>
</ebene>
</buch>

In the above example the only matching node is
<absatz>Beispieltext</absatz>

Well, litterally

//ebene/*[not(self::ebene) and
(following-sibling::ebene or preceding-sibling::ebene)]