On Friday 06 June 2003 17:32, Simon(_dot_)Fairey(_at_)ft(_dot_)com wrote:
Hi,
Given:
<data>
<stuff>
<a>
...lots in here...
</a>
<b>
...lots in here...
</b>
<c>
...lots in here...
</c>
<d>
...lots in here...
</d>
</stuff>
</data>
In my XSL to get sections 'a' and 'b' I would have thought something like:
/data/stuff/(a|b)
doesn't work because you can specify conditionnal expression only into
predicate,
between '[' and ']'
like this
/data/stuff/child::*[self::a or self::b]
or
/data/stuff/child::*[name()='a' or name()='b']
or
/data/stuff/*[self::a or self::b]
would work but the only thing I can get to work is:
/data/stuff/a|/data/stuff/b
which just seems too long winded for there not to be a better way to
express it.
With absolute paths, I think you can't write a shorter expression
HTH
--
Frédéric Laurent
http://www.opikanoba.org
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