Hello David and Michael,
thanks for your answers and sorry for my bad explanation! I am not sure if the
empty template is really the way to go, though, because the "everything else"
is my problem. To illustrate this a bit better: from the XML fragment below, I
want to create some "dump" output like "6.5.1995 Smith somedescription Ireland
100.0" (just some example), but excluding the "29.16" of <LongitudeDecimal>.
All of the elements are in the same namespace. So what I am casting around for
is how to form the predicate in a way that I get any data from <Gathering> and
below, except for that one.
I had been thinking that
<xsl:apply-templates
select="abcd:Gathering[not(.//*[self::abcd:LongitudeDecimal])]"/>
would be the way to go; but this snipps all the content from the <Site> node
and below as soon as a <LongitudeDecimal> exists (which is optional), not just
the <LongitudeDecimal> element itself. I guess this is something really stupid,
but I don't seem to be able to solve it. Thanks for your patience!
Andrea
<TopNode>
<aLotOfStuff>
<...>
</aLotOfStuff>
<Gathering>
<GatheringDate>
<DateText>6.5.1995</DateText>
</GatheringDate>
<Collectors>
<Collector>
<CollectorText>Smith</CollectorText>
</Collector>
</Collectors>
<Site>
<LocalityText>some description</LocalityText>
<Country>
<CountryName>Ireland</CountryName>
</Country>
<CoordinateSets>
<Coordinates>
<LatLong>
<LongitudeDecimal>29.16</LongitudeDecimal>
</LatLong>
</Coordinates>
</CoordinateSets>
<Altitude>100.0</Altitude>
</Site>
</Gathering>
<somethingElse>
<...>
</somethingElse>
</TopNode>
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Kay [mailto:mhk(_at_)mhk(_dot_)me(_dot_)uk]
Sent: Dienstag, 2. September 2003 10:03
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: RE: [xsl] XPath: excluding a descendant
The aim:
For providing some quick-and-dirty html output, just making
sure all data are in there somehow, I want to "dump" all
content below a certain node (not the root element) to the
screen. There is, however, one sub-sub-sub-node whose
contents I want to display on its own in a more structured
way, and I do not want it duplicated in the dump. Following
the suggestions I could find for selecting all children
except for one in the FAQ I constructed this:
<xsl:apply-templates
select="abcd:Gathering[not(self::LongitudeDecimal)]"/>
This will process all the abcd:Gathering elements that are not
LongitudeDecimal elements. Of course, none of them are.
Without seeing the structure of your XML I find it difficult to tell you
the correct code.
But the simplest way of not processing a particular element (and its
children/descendants) is to write an empty template rule for it:
<xsl:template match="LongitideDecimal"/>
Michael Kay
where Gathering is the top node for the dump, and
Gathering/GatheringSite/SiteCoordinates/LongitudeDecimal the
one node I would want _not_ to display. This does not work at
all, I guess because the element-to-exclude is not a child,
but a descendant (?). If I change the line above to
"...not(descendant::...", I get a different effect: not
excepting the one element from the output, but just testing
on presence of the node, with everything being displayed when
"LongitudeDecimal" does not exist, but nothing when it does.
How can I achieve to always display everything, always
without the Longitude-content?
Thanks,
Andrea
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