[xquery-talk] comparing consequtive elements

[Philippe Michiels]

> no book recommendations guys? web tutorials?
Plenty of them, look for pointers in the archives of this list. My
favorite book is:
  XQuery, the XML query language by M. Brudage

> PS why do I get reply messages twice?
Because that's what happens if we do a reply to all, i.e., we reply to
you as the sender and to the mailing list separately.

-Ph

> 
> 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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