find common parent using Xpath

Question

I was wondering if there was any way to access common parent node using Xpath.

            sometext &         


        

Answer 1

This seems complicated. Just try:

xquery version "3.0";

let $test :=
    
    

                sometext 
                sometext2 
    
    

return ($test//*[.//b][.//d])[last()]

to get i.e. the clostest common ancestor