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Hi!

Can some XPath expert please answer the following question:

How can I quickly check if a set of nodes do all have the same parent
node?

For example (i)

<table name="X" >
<field name="a" />
<field name="b" />
</table>

<table name="Y" >
<field name="c" />
<field name="d" />
</table>

Question: Do the nodes a, b, c and d all have the same parent node?
No, they do not in this example.

For example (ii)
<table name="X" >
<field name="a" />
<field name="b" />
</table>

Question: Do the nodes a and b all have the same parent node?
Yes, they do in this example.

How can I express that question in XPath? Of course I could retrieve
all field-nodes and then iterate over them and check but I wonder if
there is a quicker way.

Programming language: C#, VS .NET 2003

Thanks a bunch!
Markus

(Markus Wallner) writes:

> Hi!
>
> Can some XPath expert please answer the following question:
>
> How can I quickly check if a set of nodes do all have the same parent
> node?
>
> For example (i)
>
> <table name="X" >
> <field name="a" />
> <field name="b" />
> </table>
>
> <table name="Y" >
> <field name="c" />
> <field name="d" />
> </table>
>
> Question: Do the nodes a, b, c and d all have the same parent node?

1=count(.//field[@name='a' or @name='b' or @name='c' or @name='d']/..)

is just true if they all have the same parent.

David