[xquery-talk] retrieving node depending on its context

[Christian Wittern]

"Michael Kay" <mhk at mhk.me.uk> writes:

> if (tokenize(../node()[. >> $n][1][self::text()], '\s')[1] eq 'and')

I guess I am just too dense for this:-)  Where does the $n come from?
Is it something like

$x := <p>His name was <name>Christian</name> and he lived in
<place>Kyoto</place>. Another <name>Name</name> here.</p>

for $n in $x/name

...

but then I am lost.  I'd love to put all of this in a xpath predicate,
but this does not seem to work.  

Could you please explain what you meant?

All the best,

Christian

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 Christian Wittern 
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