Chris,
Well, it's true I made a couple of assumptions (based on your description)
about how your input data looks. To wit: that the values you are checking
are all element children of the nodes you are testing (and not, for
example, attributes).
Could we see a snippet of input data to confirm whether this is the case?
Yes, it's true preceding-sibling::* returns all preceding siblings. But the
predicate expression filters this list. The trick is to get the filter right.
Cheers,
Wendell
At 05:02 PM 7/10/2003, you wrote:
Thanks for the try.
What you said makes complete sense and it looked to me like it should
work, but now I have the opposite problem... It's including everything.
:p
Preceding-sibling::* means ALL preceding siblings, correct? If not,
that may be my problem, because the XML is not sorted/grouped in an
orderly fashion *grimace*.
Chris
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com] On Behalf Of
> Wendell Piez
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> Subject: Re: [xsl] Using not(...a nd ... ) to select nodes
>
>
> Chris,
>
> Try
>
> select="items/item[not(preceding-sibling::*
> [name=current()/name and
> type = current()/type and
> status = current()/status])]"
>
> The problem with your statement is it's testing true if there no
> corresponding values on any preceding siblings, whereas you
> want it to be
> true only if there's a preceding sibling with all
> corresponding values.
>
> I hope that works for you--
>
> Cheers,
> Wendell
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