XPath to find nearest ancestor element that contains an element that has an attribute with a certain value

Question

ancestor::foo[bar[@attr=\"val\"]]

I thought this would work, but it\'s not. I need to find the nearest foo element going up in the tree tha

Answer 1

This should work:

//*[ancestor::foo[bar[@attr="val"]]]

or alternatively

root/foo/bar[ancestor::foo[bar[@attr="val"]]]

matches the second element