<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><title>xpath.location</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../reference.css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1"><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="DocBook XSL Stylesheets: Reference Documentation"><link rel="up" href="generallibrary.html" title="General Library Templates"><link rel="prev" href="lookup.key.html" title="lookup.key"><link rel="next" href="comment-escape-string.html" title="comment-escape-string"><link rel="copyright" href="copyright.html" title="License"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">xpath.location</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="lookup.key.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">General Library Templates</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="comment-escape-string.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="refentry"><a name="xpath.location"></a><div class="titlepage"></div> <div class="refnamediv"><h2>xpath.location</h2><p> xpath.location — Calculate the XPath child-sequence to the current node </p></div> <div class="refsect1"><a name="idp9563168"></a><h2>Description</h2> <p>The <code class="function">xpath.location</code> template calculates the absolute path from the root of the tree to the current element node. </p> <a name="xpath.location.frag"></a><pre class="programlisting"> <xsl:template name="xpath.location"> <xsl:param name="node" select="."></xsl:param> <xsl:param name="path" select="''"></xsl:param> <xsl:variable name="next.path"> <xsl:value-of select="local-name($node)"></xsl:value-of> <xsl:if test="$path != ''">/</xsl:if> <xsl:value-of select="$path"></xsl:value-of> </xsl:variable> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="$node/parent::*"> <xsl:call-template name="xpath.location"> <xsl:with-param name="node" select="$node/parent::*"></xsl:with-param> <xsl:with-param name="path" select="$next.path"></xsl:with-param> </xsl:call-template> </xsl:when> <xsl:otherwise> <xsl:text>/</xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="$next.path"></xsl:value-of> </xsl:otherwise> </xsl:choose> </xsl:template> </pre> </div> </div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="lookup.key.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="generallibrary.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="comment-escape-string.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">lookup.key </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> comment-escape-string</td></tr></table></div></body></html>