[xquery-talk] Is this a tricky query?

[Govoni, Darren]

Hi,
   I'm new to XQuery and have been trying to solve what I think is an easy problem. I want to write an Xquery that recursively finds all elements matching the value of an attribue found elsewhere. For example, navigating the subClassOf relation of an RDF.

A trite example below:

<rdfs:Class rdf:ID="&ns;Ground_forces" rdfs:label="Ground forces">
<rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="&ns;Military_forces"/>
</rdfs:Class>
<rdfs:Class rdf:ID="&ns;Military_forces" rdfs:label="Military forces">
<rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="&ns;Forces"/>
</rdfs:Class>
<rdfs:Class rdf:ID="&ns;Forces" rdfs:label="Forces">
<rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="&ns;Organization"/>
</rdfs:Class>

So, given &ns;Ground_forces , I would like the query to return

<rdfs:Class rdf:ID="&ns;Military_forces" rdfs:label="Military forces">
<rdfs:Class rdf:ID="&ns;Forces" rdfs:label="Forces">

or something similar. I just couldn't get it to work properly. Can anyone help me?

Thank you,
Darren
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