How to do an xpath OR on nodes? 1

[lookitsdre]

Hi Tek-Tips Users,

Greetings from a first poster.

I'm trying to do an xpath on an xml file that has two possible paths. One is :
//ja:head/ce:title

and the other is
//ja:simple-head/ce:title

Is it possible to combine the two? I've tried :
//ja:head|ja:simple-head/ce:title
and
//(ja:head|ja:simple-head)/ce:title

but neither seems to work?
Any tek-tips?(haha)

Thanks!
Andre

 

[tsuji]

It is supported in xslt 2.0. Make sure you declare the version in the xslt document and use xslt2 processor. The expression
[tt] //(ja:head|ja:simple-head)/ce:title[/tt]

 

[tsuji]

I thought you were doubting xpath/xslt 2.0. But if you mean generally, it is supported since xslt/xpath 1.0.

 

[lookitsdre]

tsuji,
Thanks for responding.

When I set it as //(ja:head|ja:simple-head)/ce:title, I get an xsl error about formatting with ( from the compiler. This is .net 2.

I tried to set the xsl to version 2 by switching <xsl:transform version="1.0" to <xsl:transform version="2.0" but I still get the same error.

Tho I interpret your last comment to mean that its already in xpath 1? So it should work anyway.

Any more thoughts?

 

[tsuji]

In .net, try to compile instead this as xpath.
[tt] "//ja:head/ce:title|//ja:simple-head/ce:title"[/tt]

 

[lookitsdre]

Tsuji,

Thanks! That was right. It is a bit bloated and I'm surprised that they implement this but not the nested case. I've only got two cases so its ok.

Andre