Re: Must be a better way to write this XPath expression

Simon(_dot_)Fairey(_at_)ft(_dot_)com wrote:
> In my XSL to get sections 'a' and 'b' I would have thought something like:
>
> /data/stuff/(a|b)
This will be legal in XPath 2.0, but is not legal in XPath 1.0

> would work but the only thing I can get to work is:
>
> /data/stuff/a|/data/stuff/b
In XPath 1.0, the only place the union ( | ) operator is legal is at the top 
level, as you have discovered.

> which just seems too long winded for there not to be a better way to 
> express it.

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Jeff Kenton
DataPower Technology, Inc.



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