Hi Stef,
At 03:20 PM 3/22/2005, you wrote:
Jumping in at the eleventh hour and probably am hugely
wrong here, but, wouldn't the following work ?
<xsl:apply-template select="*[not(foo/bar[(_at_)a='b'])]"
mode="unmatchedresults"/>
No, this matches an element (*) that does not have a foo child with a bar
child with @a='b'.
What you are trying to express would probably be
*[not(self::bar[parent::foo][(_at_)a='b']
which would match any element not itself a bar with a foo parent and an @a='b'.
This would match any node that did not have the foo/bar
entity with an attribute of a that was b. you would (of
course) need to provide some other search criteria such
as name()="corefoo" so that it didn't match elements
you were not interested in.
Yes, exactly.
As a sidenote, I have used the following in my xslt to
match any sub-element that was -not- a prev, next or
alternativenames
<xsl:for-each select="*[not(name()='prev') and not(name()='next') and no
t(name()='alternativenames')]">
Is there any 'cleaner' or 'saner' way to write this ?
Yes, an XPath junkie would probably prefer
*[not(self::prev|self::next|self::alternativenames)]
which will select any child element not itself a prev, next or
alternativesnames.
We generally like to leave name testing for the Perl hackers. :->
Cheers,
Wendell
again, apologies if this is not what was asked for,
I am simply trying to offer something that has worked
for me in a somewhat similiar fashion.
Not a problem. The bottom line is, don't think about matching without
thinking about selecting. Match is only the Yin to the select's Yang.
Cheers,
Wendell
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