xpath problem

[snaggy]

here my structure<structure> <menu id="main"> <item/> <item/> <item> <menu id="products"> <item/> <item/> </menu> </item> </menu><menu id="second"> <item/> <item> <menu id="buddies"> <item/> </menu> </item> </menu></structure>or something like that...anyway, I want to select through xPath the element menu with specified id (let's say buddies) and all the ancestors menu items, obtaining an array of menus items (composed of items).i tried something like that but it doesn't work:ancestor-or-self:://menu[@id=products]//ancestor-or-self::menu[@id=products]ancestor-or-self::menu//menu[@id=products]what should I do?bye and thanks you all

[boen_robot]

XPath axes are only for use in relative paths as far as I'm aware of.Try something with no axes://menu[@id=products]|//menu[@id=products]/node()

[aalbetski]

using XSLT , I came up with this

<xsl:stylesheet 	xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 	version="1.0">	<xsl:output method="html"/>			<xsl:template match="//menu[@id='buddies']">		<xsl:for-each select="ancestor-or-self::*[name()='menu']">			<xsl:value-of select="name()"/><br/>		</xsl:for-each>	</xsl:template>	</xsl:stylesheet>

using XMLDOM (msxml parser) and Javascript

var oNode = xmlSource.selectSingleNode("//menu[@id='buddies']")var oNodes = oNode.selectNodes("ancestor-or-self::*[name()='menu']")