selecting sibling or cousin of current element

shadi_a89 · April 3rd, 2014, 09:46 AM

I'm trying to group elements with similar headings together, the problem is that I don't know how they are going to appear in the xml, I just know the parent of the elements to be mapped, and the element name.

Code:

xml:

<element1>
    <entry>
        <section>
            <title>title</title>
       </section>
        <section>
            <title>title</title>
       </section>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <section>
            <title>title2</title>
       </section>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <section>
            <title>title3</title>
       </section>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <section>
            <title>title4</title>
            <section>
                 <section>
                     <title>title5</title>
                 </section>
             </section>
            <section>
                 <section>
                     <title>title5</title>
                 </section>
             </section>
       </section>
    </entry>
</element1>

I managed to group together the elements of the first level, but beyond that I can't get an xpath that will always work.