Howdy --
I'm having difficulty crafting a tricky XPath expression and would appreciate
help from any XPath gurus out there.
Sample document:
<IDMS>
<identity idms_id="900000282">
<sponsorship status="Inactive" start_date="Jul 20
2004">Provost</sponsorship>
<sponsorship status="Active" start_date="May 28 2004
">Residents</sponsorship>
</identity>
<identity idms_id="900018891">
<sponsorship status="Active" start_date="May 6 2003">HR</sponsorship>
<sponsorship status="Active" start_date="May 9 2003">Provost</sponsorship>
<sponsorship status="Active" start_date="May 8 2003">UMA</sponsorship>
</identity>
</IDMS>
I need an XPath expression that will extract the array of <identity> elements
with Active Provost sponsorship.
Applying the expression I seek against the above document would yield a
one-element array containing only the second
<identity> element from the document.
Extracting the <identity> elements with Provost sponsorship is trivial:
/IDMS/identity[sponsorship='Provost']
The tricky part seems to be restricting the selection to only the *Active*
Provost sponsorships.
I've tried a zillion permutations on the following as the second argument to my
XMLSearch() call, but none of my
experiments has worked right yet:
/IDMS/identity[sponsorship='Provost' and [EMAIL PROTECTED]'Active']]
I've looked through all the XPath tutorials I could find but couldn't find an
answer to this question (at least, not an
answer I could understand). Looking at some complex examples I've found in
some tutorials, I've gotten a vague sense
that somehow "id()" and "self::" are going to be involved in a solution, but
otherwise I'm just totally lost.
Greatly appreciate any help anyone can provide.
-- Larry Afrin
Medical University of South Carolina
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