I think u have some kind of misunderstanding about XPath. It can only be used for getting XML information. It can not be used for XML manipulation. This facility is available in XQuery which is forthcoming specification by W3c. So try to read it. Currently there r two following soultions available:



1. XSLT.


2. DOM.




i think it would be helpful for you.



take care,


irfan mansha.

Not really, the problem comes when you need to distinguish between two nodes that essentially have exactly the same information contained in them. So really it depends on how you build the XPath in the first place.

I've done something like this in XSLT and used the generate-id function to attatch identifying ids. However, really you are just moving towards the XML serialisation problems. We were trying to encode into name/value pairs at the time.