I'm running Saxon 9

I am trying to find an element that has specific values for a couple of child elements, B where C = 1 and D = 3.

A - B - C = 1
      + D = 2
  + B - C = 1
      + D = 3
  + E

My current node is E
My select statement is

select = "//B[./C = 1][./D = 3]"

I've also tried

select = "//B[(./C = 1) and (./D = 3)]

neither is giving the answer I want (the second 'B' node) I tend to get neither node.

While I try to find a typo somewhere causing this, are these valid ways find this node?



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Both your expressions look correct to me.

Perhaps it would be better if you showed actual XML source, and perhaps a complete stylesheet.

Michael Kay
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Author, XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

Thanks Michael.

As it turned out it was a typo. I had a trailing space after one of the values for my keys.

My complete stylesheet is over 3500 lines long. My XML files are over 2500 lines long, each and there are 12 of these (so far). I hesitate to post entire files when I have these issues, that's why I try to simplify the problem to the representative tree.

I more than appreciate the offer to examine the entire stylesheet, and if I find myself in a spot that I cannot solve, I may take you up on that offer.

Thanks again!






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You definitely don't want to be posting things that long. But cutting it down to something that's executable is often better than cutting it down to fragments that aren't - we want to know that the bug hasn't been removed in the course of cutting it down.

Michael Kay
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Author, XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

As per my understanding, if your input xml is somewhat like
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<A>
    <B>
        <C>1</C>
        <D>2</D>
    </B>
    <B>
        <C>1</C>
        <D>3</D>
     </B>
    <E>test</E>
</A>

and your current template match is for "E", then try the below code to select only B where C = 1 and D = 3:

<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" indent="yes"/>


    <xsl:template match="E">
        <xsl:value-of select="../B[C = 1][D = 3]"></xsl:value-of>
    </xsl:template>
    <xsl:template match="C"/>
    <xsl:template match="D"/>
</xsl:stylesheet>


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