How to traverse back to the parent node in the XML file by using Xpath(using XSLT) query?

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Santosh kumar picture Santosh kumar · Sep 9, 2010 · Viewed 42.5k times · Source

Let us have a xml tree of depth N. I have traveresd the last node means i am at last note. Now i wanted to go back to some level up (say at N-3) in the xml tree from that last node.

Please let me know the syntax for the XPATH query so that i can reached at intended node in the xml tree.

Answer

Dimitre Novatchev picture Dimitre Novatchev · Sep 9, 2010

Use:

ancestor::node()[3]

or

../../..

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