[xquery-talk] XQuery and id()/idref(); Controlling the children of nodes in the result sequence

[Maik Stührenberg]

Michael Kay schrieb:
>> So the question is, is it possible to recursively traverse 
>> the descendants of the a:data node and select only those 
>> element nodes which 
>>    refer to the same a:span element?
> 
> Well, the answer is yes - though at this point I'm afraid I start wishing
> the code was written in XSLT rather than XQuery: XSLT makes recursive
> traversal of a tree so much easier. But you can do it: write a recursive
> function that you apply to a node, and which calls itself to process the
> children of the node.
> 
> 
To be honest, I started writing an XSLT script after my first steps in 
the XQuery world. So I guess in XSLT I'd need a template for the a:data 
node containing a xsl:for-each select="child::node" statement...

Kind regards,

Maik Stührenberg