[xquery-talk] comparing consequtive elements

Chris Ness cness at soundmotion.co.uk
Fri Jun 2 14:54:58 PDT 2006


excellent!! thanks David.

I shall continue on my own now. (for a while anyway)

no book recommendations guys? web tutorials?

chris

PS why do I get reply messages twice?

David Carlisle wrote:

>adj.xml (made well formed:-)
><eg>
>    <section n="1">
>        <a attribute="1"/>
>        <a attribute="2"/>
>    </section>
>    <section n="2">
>        <a attribute="3"/>
>        <a attribute="1"/>
>    </section>
>    <section n="3">
>        <a attribute="3"/>
>        <a attribute="3"/>
>    </section>
>    <section n="4">
>        <a attribute="1"/>
>        <a attribute="1"/>
>    </section>
></eg>
>
>
>
>
>adj.xq
>
>/eg/section[a[@attribute=3 and following::a[1]/@attribute=1]]/number(@n)
>
>
>$ saxon8q -s adj.xml adj.xq
><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>2 3
>                                      ^^^ as requested
>
>David
>
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