[xquery-talk] retrieving node depending on its context

[Christian Wittern]

Philippe Michiels <philippe.michiels at ua.ac.be> writes:

> A quick solution:
>
> let $x := <p>His name was <name>Christian</name> and he lived in
> <place>Kyoto</place>.<name>test</name></p>
> return
>   for $y in $x/descendant::name
>   let $text := $y/parent::node()/child::text()[. >> $y][1]
>   where fn:starts-with(fn:trim($text), " and")
>   return $y
>
> Note that you have to take into account the leading space of the text node 
> after the name-tag.

Thanks a lot, this seems to do exactly what I need! 

I had to take out the fn:trim, since that does not seem to be a
standard function, but I can handle that otherwise with my data.

All the best,

Chris

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 Christian Wittern 
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