Getting absolute path from xpath selectors

Question

Is it possible for the xpath selection to return the absolute path for every node found?

for a quick example

//chapter

to return

//book[1]/chapter
//book[2]/chapter
...

thanks

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mysomic 26 May '09 at 0:00

2 answers

The pythons lxml module can do this by calling the getpath method .

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SpliFF May 26 '09 at 1:10

markusk · Accepted Answer · 2009-05-26T00:30:41+0000

There is no easy way to do this just using XPath. If you are using XSLT there are several recipes available, for example http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/N6077.html#d7984e96 .