Hi,
sorry if this is an old question turning up in yet another variation - I
searched the messages I could find in the archives on the subject of selecting
all children but one, but I still cannot get my XPath expression right, and
would appreciate your help.
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)]"/>
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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