IRC log of xproc on 2007-02-01

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15:42:55 [Norm]
zakim, this will be xproc
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ok, Norm; I see XML_PMWG()11:00AM scheduled to start in 18 minutes
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zakim, what's the passcode?
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the conference code is 97762 (tel:+1.617.761.6200 tel:+33.4.89.06.34.99 tel:+44.117.370.6152), Norm
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zakim, [ is Alessandro
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+Alessandro; got it
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+[IPcaller]
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Zakim, [I is me
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+rlopes; got it
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zakim, please call ht-781
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ok, ht; the call is being made
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+Ht
16:02:11 [Norm]
zakim, who's on the phone?
16:02:11 [Zakim]
On the phone I see +1.650.786.aaaa, PGrosso, Alessandro, rlopes, Ht
16:02:18 [Norm]
zakim, aaaa is Norm
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+Norm; got it
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+??P26
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zakim, ? is richard
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+richard; got it
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+Alex_Milowski
16:03:06 [Norm]
Meeting: XML Processing Model WG
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Date: 1 Feb 2007
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Agenda: http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2007/02/01-agenda.html
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Meeting: 53, T-minus 39 weeks
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Chair: Norm
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Scribe: Norm
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ScribeNick: Norm
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zakim, who's on the phone?
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On the phone I see Norm, PGrosso, Alessandro, rlopes, Ht, richard, Alex_Milowski
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+??P38
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Present: Norm, Paul, Alessandro, Rui, Henry, Richard, Alex, Andrew
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zakim, ??P38 is Andrew
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zakim, ? is AndrewF
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+Andrew; got it
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sorry, AndrewF, I do not recognize a party named '?'
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Regrets: Murray
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Topic: Accept this agenda?
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-> http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2007/02/01-agenda.html
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Accepted.
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Topic: Accept minutes from the previous meeting?
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-> http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2007/01/25-minutes.html
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Accepted.
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Face-to-face in 2007?
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Henry: I'll check if the W3C is ok with having a WG that runs for 18 months without a f2f meeting.
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Richard: The rescheduled Tech Plenary is partly responsible.
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Paul: We had a f2f in August, and I thought we didn't plan to have a lot of f2f meetings.
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Norm: If we had a meeting, I think I would propose meeting in Europe, perhaps colocated with XTech in Paris or around the XML Summer School in Oxford in July?
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Henry: Edinburgh would be happy to host.
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Norm: Let's leave the question open for today, but we should decide soon.
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Another public WD in February?
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Norm: If review of last week's draft is generally favorable, I'd like to propose a new public WD in the next week or so then seriously consideer what obstacles prevent us from doing a Last Call in March.
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Topic: Review of editor's draft of last week
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-> http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/docs/langspec.html
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a. Is the defaulting story right?
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Henry: Not quite: I can't find where we talk about the situations in which we write p:output with a binding.
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..That's where there ought to be something about defaulting.
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Henry: You ought to not have to have an output.
16:14:04 [Norm]
Norm: No, I didn't consider the defaulting case where you don't specify an output at all.
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Henry: I think we should.
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Henry: In particular, in 2.4, it's easy to read this as if it only worries about inputs.
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Norm: I'm going to take it as an editorial suggestion that 2.4 needs to say more about output bindings.
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Henry: Consider also 4.2.7: "The result of the p:for-each" ...
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Norm: And the defaulting story is...
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Henry: A container instance that has one of these inward/output facing outputs...
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Norm: If the container doesn't declare any output bindings, then it's output is what would have been input to a putative step that came after what is in fact the last step.
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Norm: Henry's email is: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xml-processing-model-wg/2007Feb/0014.html
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Henry: Consider figure 3
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Henry: Note that this pipeline has no p:output
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Richard: Is this what we want? Don't we want to be able to refer to the outputs.
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zakim, mute henry
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sorry, Norm, I do not know which phone connection belongs to henry
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zakim, mute ht
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Ht should now be muted
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Alex: I didn't think we were going to default outputs
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Richard: I was assuming you would have defaults for outputs, but you'd have to declare the outputs.
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Alex: Where is this helpful? On viewport, for-each, etc.
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Henry: Can we look at figure 4 please?
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Henry: It should be clear where the input from the XSLT step comes from
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Richard: How do you declare a choose that has no outputs then?
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Henry: I'd be sorry if that obscure case required me to put outputs in every p:when
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Richard: I'd been assuming that you'd have to declare them, you just wouldn't have to bind them.
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Henry: I think that would just irritate users every time they had to do it.
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Richard: We can consider whether or not you have to declare them and whether or not you have to bind them separately.
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Norm: You could use a DevNull component to make a component that has no outputs.
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Henry: I really want to write pipelines like http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xml-processing-model-wg/2007Feb/att-0014/fig4.xml
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...The flow is completely defaulted.
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Henry: I think the 90% case is where people will want to default the entire flow
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Richard: In order to get the abbreviated syntax you want, we're now having to change the unabbreviated syntax.
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...It used to be clear that if you didn't have any outputs, there weren't any.
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Alex: So what's the name of the output of the choose?
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Norm: There isn't one. There's just an anonymous output that's only accessible as the default input to some following component.
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Henry: In the non-defaulted syntax, I think I'd be a little happier if I did have an explicit indication that the component didn't have any outputs.
16:36:00 [Norm]
...In particular, consider: unconnected outputs are not a bug, that's just fine. So I'm considering the case where someone writes a choose and, ignoring the defaulting discussion, does not put any outputs on any of the whens.
16:36:06 [Norm]
...But the last step does have an output port.
16:36:41 [Norm]
...That seems to me to be a slightly odd situation. Any container that ends with a step that produces output in a container which doesn't have any outputs, I'd expect that to at least be a warning situation.
16:37:07 [Norm]
...That leads me to feel that I'd be perfectly happy to require components to explicitly state that they don't produce any outputs.
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Richard: I had not considered this question.
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Norm: Ok, let's leave this for a week and come back to it next week.
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Henry: In updating the DTD, I realized that there's an interesting difference between XPath context and input.
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...Both have a binding, but only input allows a select attribute.
16:39:45 [ht]
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xml-processing-model-wg/2007Feb/0012.html
16:39:47 [Norm]
...My first thought was that that was ok, but then I thought about it a little longer and the following example occurred to me:
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Henry: I ended up thinking I'd rather right it that way.
16:40:08 [PGrosso]
s/right/write/
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Norm: It seems reasonable to me.
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Some discussion of what happens when sequences are identified
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-PGrosso
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-Alessandro
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Alex points out the difference between the way select is proposed to work on xpath-context and the way it works on input.
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Henry: The paragraph that finishes "set of nodes is wrapped in a document" needs editorial improvement.
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Henry: If we accept my proposal, I think I do want select on xpath-context to work differently.
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Henry: Maybe we need to think about this for a while too
16:50:48 [Norm]
Norm: Yes, probably.
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c. Do we want to do something similar about for-each/viewport?
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Norm tries to outline why the single input to viewport/for-each could or perhaps should also be anonymous.
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Henry: This is the thing which drives the process but isn't something that gets referred to subsequently.
16:54:17 [Norm]
...It's perfectly reasonable to have a different input. I think the simplest thing to do would be have an input with no port name.
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Alex: In the case of viewport, isn't the input often going to be defaulted?
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Henry: I agree with Norm's analysis that giving it a name makes it available in which is odd.
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Alex: But you can't read from it inside.
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Richard: You could bind to it, just as you can bind to the inputs of a pipeline.
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Alex: Is that how this works?
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Henry: If not, then it voilates the principle of least suprise at the very least
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Norm: Taken together I think these three issues stand in the way of a public draft.
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...Let's please resolve them next week
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Henry: Can you add my updated examples and the DTD to the draft?
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Norm: yes.
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Topic: Any other business?
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None.
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-rlopes
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-richard
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-Norm
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-Andrew
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-Alex_Milowski
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-Ht
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XML_PMWG()11:00AM has ended
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Attendees were +1.650.786.aaaa, PGrosso, [IPcaller], Alessandro, rlopes, Ht, Norm, richard, Alex_Milowski, Andrew
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rrsagent, make logs world-visible
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rrsagent, draft minutes
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I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2007/02/01-xproc-minutes.html Norm
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Zakim, what is the code ?.
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the conference code is hidden, MoZ
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Zakim, what is the code ?
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the conference code is hidden, MoZ
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!!!
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I cannot join ?
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any idea ?
17:05:31 [MoZ]
Zakim, this will be xproc ?
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I do not see a conference matching that name scheduled within the next hour, MoZ
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do I miss again the telcon ?
17:06:15 [Norm]
You're an hour late, MoZ ...
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arfff again!
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:-)
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:-)
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anyone around?
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yes
22:07:37 [eigma]
I have an XPath question
22:09:22 [Norm]
Uhm. Ok.
22:10:09 [eigma]
I have an xml document like <a><b><b><b><c><d>XYZ</d></c></b></b></b></a>
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I want to select the nearest parent "b" of d containing XYZ...
22:10:38 [eigma]
I have it down to //b[d='XYZ'] for selecting all B's
22:10:44 [eigma]
but I need to select only the nearest parent.. any ideas?
22:11:00 [Norm]
/b[contains(d,'XYZ')/ancestor::b[1]
22:11:07 [Norm]
Sorry, //b[contains(d,'XYZ')/ancestor::b[1]
22:11:23 [Norm]
Ack wrong again
22:11:37 [Norm]
You need: //b[contains(d,'XYZ')]/ancestor::b[1]
22:11:49 [eigma]
thanks, I'll try
22:11:56 [Norm]
yw
22:15:48 [eigma]
I can't get it working..
22:16:12 [eigma]
doesn't contains take only strings as arguments?
22:16:15 [Norm]
You might want to try sending a small test case to the XSL mailing list or xml-dev.
22:16:36 [Norm]
The contains function will take the string value of 'd'.
22:16:37 [eigma]
ok
22:16:44 [Norm]
If d='XYZ' will actually work, then you can try:
22:17:04 [eigma]
yes, //b[d='XYZ] does work, but it selects all such b
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whereas I want the nearest parent
22:17:24 [Norm]
Oh, right. Let me think for a second...
22:17:33 [eigma]
sure, thanks for your time
22:17:54 [Norm]
Try this: //d[contains(.,'XYZ') and ancestor::b]/ancestor::b[1]
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/d[contains(.,'YXZ')]/ancestor::b[1]
22:18:13 [Norm]
That is, select all the 'd' elements that contain b and have at least one ancestor b then choose the nearest ancestor b
22:18:18 [MSM]
that is, //d[contains(.,'YXZ')]/ancestor::b[1]
22:18:43 [Norm]
Right, except you need to make sure you only select 'd' elements that do *have* an ancestor b :-)
22:19:07 [Norm]
Uhm...
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Yeah, maybe.
22:19:31 [eigma]
<d>XYZ</d> only ever appears within at least one <b> in this document, so that check is not necessarily needed
22:19:37 [Norm]
Ok
22:22:15 [eigma]
what about //d='XYZ'/ancestor::b[1] ?
22:25:05 [Norm]
That's not a valid XPath
22:25:15 [eigma]
yeah, I noticed that the hard way ;)
22:25:23 [Norm]
You could say //d[.='XYZ']/ancestor::b[1]
22:26:27 [eigma]
can I make the "=" operator case-sensitive?
22:34:04 [eigma]
nevermind..
22:49:29 [eigma]
thanks everyone.. I finally found a solution!