Hi Rob,

maybe you think of something like the following function:

declare function local:getInfo(
  $anyelement as item()
){
  if ($anyelement instance of element()) then
      string-join(
        for $e in $anyelement/ancestor-or-self::*
        return
          if (exists($e/@*)) then
            concat(
              name($e),
              string-join(
                for $attr in $e/@*
                return
                  "[@" || $attr/name() || "=" || '''' || $attr/string() || '''' || "]",
                ''
              )
            )
          else if ($e/preceding-sibling::*[name(.) = name($e)]) then
            let $pos := count($e/preceding-sibling::*[name(.) = name($e)]) + 1
            return
              name($e) || "[" || $pos || "]"
          else if ($e/following-sibling::*[name(.) = name($e)]) then
              name($e) || "[1]"
          else
            name($e),
        '/'
      )
  else ()
};


Christoph

Am 17.05.2016 um 15:51 schrieb Rob Stapper:

Hi Chistian,

In order to get some path to the element that is being processed I hoped that the following statement [ 1] would return a sequence of positions of each node amongst its siblings.

Unfortunately it only returns a bunch of: 1.

 

[ 1] $element/ancestor-or-self::* ! ./fn:position()

 

Should this work?

Is there some other ;-) clever way to retrieve a path to a random element that is being processed?

 

TIA for your reply,

 

Rob Stapper