Parent node of an XML Search

[Guest]

I have been wrecking my brain on this and I am sure that it is possible I am just not sure what the proper search expression is.

If I have an XML document like this:
<items>
<item>
<linkurl>foo</linkurl>
<item>
<linkurl>bar</linkurl>
</item>
</item>
</items>

Lets say I am looking for the parent of the item element that has a linkurl element with value of "bar" I would expect to write something like this:

<cfset itemArray = xmlSearch(xmlDoc, "ancestor:://item[linkurl='bar']")>

I know that for this particular instance I could access it directly but in my case there may be many <item> tags nested so I want it to be dynamic so that I can continue to walk back up the tree.

Any help will be appreciated

[Guest · Accepted solution]

This was posted a couple of times because of a bad internet connection, anyways with my trusty XPath Explorer plugin I was able to get the solution:

<cfset itemArray = xmlSearch(xmlDoc, "//item[linkurl='bar']/parent::item")>

If you have started to play with XML and XPath in particular and you are using Eclipse the XPath Explorer plugin is invaluable!