By atomic i meant it's greek meaning of "indivisible".
But let me modify my scenario:
Giving
<Menu>
<Name>aaa</Name>
<Menu>
<Name>bbb</Name>
</Menu>
</Menu>
can i have a XPath that returns only
<Menu>
<Name>aaa</Name>
<Menu/>
</Menu>
I think i'm thinking wrong in saying that "XPath returns", the correct
should be "XPath selects", so it can't select something that doesn't
exist, so what i want is not possible.
But then again i was thinking in something like along a predicate with
not(child::Menu) or something...
On 9/9/05, David Carlisle <davidc(_at_)nag(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk> wrote:
what do you mean by "atomic value" The term isn't used in XPath 1 but in
XPath2 it has a defined meaning (and means, essentially all values that
are not a node) so the answer to your question for XPath2 at least might
be "no".
is there a XPath expr that selects only
<Menu>
<Name>aaa</Name>
</Menu>
No, in XSLT XPath only selects into input trees not result trees and
theer is no such node in the input.
If you save the result into a temporary tree (either directly in XSLT2,
or using an xx:node-set extension in XSLT1) then you could of course
select that node from the temporary tree after building the tree with
xslt. Gowever I see you mentioned firefox which is one of the few XSLT1
systems not to offer a node-set extension.
David
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