On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 12:58:41PM -0700, Kris Thompson wrote:
>  I must have missed it but I feel like my searching has been complete.  I 
>  am looking for a way, using one of the more popular parsers idealy 
>  Xerces, to if given a node in a document return the XPath string 
>  representation of that node.  Something like the following would be nice
>  
>  public static String getXPath(Document doc, Node node)
>     
>      where node is the node that I want the XPath expression on and doc 
>  is the document for which this node exist.  
>  
>  If this does not exist in any popular parsers than has anyone created 
>  this piece of code for which I could have?

  Available as:
     xmlChar * xmlGetNodePath(xmlNodePtr node);

in libxml2 (http://xmlsoft.org/)
   http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-tree.html#XMLGETNODEPATH

Note of course that there isn't "the" XPath string to select that node
there is an infinity of those. 2 implementation could return different
path and both be right.

Daniel

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