How to travese back to the parent node in the XML file by using Xpath(using XSLT) query?

Question

Let us have a xml tree of depth N. I have traveresd the last node means i am at last note. Now i wanted to go back to some level up (say at N-3) in the xml tree from that last node.

Please let me know the syntax for the XPATH query so that i can reached at intended node in the xml tree.

Answer 1

Just like in file systems you can use .. to refer to the parent node. So the query ../../../ will refer to the node three levels up.

Answer 2

Use:

ancestor::node()[3]

or

../../..