9.13. Some Examples
At the beginning of this chapter, we saw three examples of searches that require hierarchical context. In the short sections below, solutions to these three queries are illustrated.
9.13.1. Find “Sean” Anywhere Within a Name Element
We use the following small staff file to illustrate this query.
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C>type staff.xml
<staff>
<department name="Technical">
<person>
<title>Technical Director</title>
<name>
<given>Sean</given>
<family>McGrath</family>
</name>
<email>Sean@digitome.com</email>
<web>http://www.digitome.com/Sean.html</web>
</person>
</department>
</staff>
We can use the xgrep –ancestor switch to restrict the match for “Sean” to be within name elements only:
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