Sometimes, you want to get the XPath of an element. Here are two working solutions, one in pure XSLT and one in C#.
\nBoth of them return XPath in the form of: \/html[1]\/body[1]\/div[1]\/div[2]\/div[3]\/div[1]\/p[2]\/img[1]<\/p>\n
C#<\/strong><\/p>\n XSLT<\/strong><\/p>\n XSLT-Usage<\/strong><\/p>\n Sometimes, you want to get the XPath of an element. Here are two working solutions, one in pure XSLT and one in C#. Both of them return XPath in the form of: \/html[1]\/body[1]\/div[1]\/div[2]\/div[3]\/div[1]\/p[2]\/img[1] C# \/\/\/ <summary> \/\/\/ Gets the X-Path to a given Node \/\/\/ <\/summary> \/\/\/ <param name="node">The Node to get the X-Path from<\/param> … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,96],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-roemer","4":"post-336","6":"format-standard","7":"category-csharp","8":"category-programming","9":"category-xml-programming"},"acf":[],"views":6579,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.flauschig.ch\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.flauschig.ch\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.flauschig.ch\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.flauschig.ch\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.flauschig.ch\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dev.flauschig.ch\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.flauschig.ch\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.flauschig.ch\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.flauschig.ch\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\r\n\/\/\/ <summary>\r\n\/\/\/ Gets the X-Path to a given Node\r\n\/\/\/ <\/summary>\r\n\/\/\/ <param name="node">The Node to get the X-Path from<\/param>\r\n\/\/\/ <returns>The X-Path of the Node<\/returns>\r\npublic string GetXPathToNode(XmlNode node)\r\n{\r\n\tif (node.NodeType == XmlNodeType.Attribute)\r\n\t{\r\n\t\t\/\/ attributes have an OwnerElement, not a ParentNode; also they have \r\n\t\t\/\/ to be matched by name, not found by position \r\n\t\treturn String.Format("{0}\/@{1}", GetXPathToNode(((XmlAttribute)node).OwnerElement), node.Name);\r\n\t}\r\n\tif (node.ParentNode == null)\r\n\t{\r\n\t\t\/\/ the only node with no parent is the root node, which has no path\r\n\t\treturn "";\r\n\t}\r\n\r\n\t\/\/ Get the Index\r\n\tint indexInParent = 1;\r\n\tXmlNode siblingNode = node.PreviousSibling;\r\n\t\/\/ Loop thru all Siblings\r\n\twhile (siblingNode != null)\r\n\t{\r\n\t\t\/\/ Increase the Index if the Sibling has the same Name\r\n\t\tif (siblingNode.Name == node.Name)\r\n\t\t{\r\n\t\t\tindexInParent++;\r\n\t\t}\r\n\t\tsiblingNode = siblingNode.PreviousSibling;\r\n\t}\r\n\r\n\t\/\/ the path to a node is the path to its parent, plus "\/node()[n]", where n is its position among its siblings. \r\n\treturn String.Format("{0}\/{1}[{2}]", GetXPathToNode(node.ParentNode), node.Name, indexInParent);\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n\r\n <xsl:template name="GeneratePath">\r\n\t<xsl:param name="node" select="." \/>\r\n\t<xsl:message terminate="no">\r\n\t <xsl:copy-of select="$node"\/>\r\n\t<\/xsl:message>\r\n\t<xsl:apply-templates select="$node" mode="StartGeneratePath" \/>\r\n <\/xsl:template>\r\n\r\n <xsl:template match="*" mode="StartGeneratePath">\r\n\t<xsl:call-template name="genPath" \/>\r\n <\/xsl:template>\r\n \r\n <xsl:template name="genPath">\r\n\t<xsl:param name="prevPath"\/>\r\n\t<xsl:variable name="currPath" select="concat('\/',name(),'[',count(preceding-sibling::*[name() = name(current())])+1,']',$prevPath)"\/>\r\n\t<xsl:for-each select="parent::*">\r\n\t <xsl:call-template name="genPath">\r\n\t\t<xsl:with-param name="prevPath" select="$currPath"\/>\r\n\t <\/xsl:call-template>\r\n\t<\/xsl:for-each>\r\n\t<xsl:if test="not(parent::*)">\r\n\t <xsl:value-of select="$currPath"\/>\r\n\t<\/xsl:if>\r\n <\/xsl:template>\r\n<\/pre>\n\r\n<xsl:variable name="path">\r\n <xsl:call-template name="GeneratePath">\r\n\t<xsl:with-param name="node" select=".\/div[@class='eintrag2']\/\/img[1]"\/>\r\n <\/xsl:call-template>\r\n<\/xsl:variable>\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"