[Xpath-ng] Re: Xpath-ng Digest, Vol 1, Issue 44

[bry at itnisk.com]

this was the wrong list to ask the question, it is pretty much defunct, and it
was used to discuss a new version of xpath, in preference to xpath 2.0

you should probably look for the xsl list xsl-list at lists.mulberrytech.com if you
have further questions, without knowing any more about your situation i can't
answer better than the following xpath:

//tagname[@nameofattribute='attributevalue']/parent::*

this would get the parents of all tags named tagname which have an attribute
named nameofattribute which has a value equal to attributevalue, if you know
specifically what your parent tag name is change the * at the end of your xpath
to that tagname.  
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> HELP!
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> I am in the middle of an xml project and I need to
> select the parent of a tag with a certain attribute
> value.
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> I cannot, for the life of me, find the xpath to do
> this.  t doesn't seen like it would be that difficult
> to me.
> 
> Anyone out there know?
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> Thanks in advance.
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> Craig
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