On 18 November 2010 00:21, Clemens Wyss wrote: > I re-read your initial post ;-) > How about: > //element(*)[@prefix=''] The trick is to get that path prefix extracted What I was thinking was that if the subscription contained a reference to a node instead of it's path, then if it was possible to implicitly dereference this reference in the query, and check if it refers to a parent node of the given node / path from the event listeners onevent call. > If your subscription nodes have a specific nodetype, e.g. 'myblog:subscription': > //element(*, myblog:subscription)[@prefix=''] -- -Tor