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RE: Re: Re: Change of Attribute Value

2005-11-04 13:42:08
Mike,

At 12:37 PM 11/4/2005, you wrote:
>
> Not quite. The principal node kind for the self axis is
> elements, but self::node() will find any kind of node, and
> therefore self::node()[local-name()='xyz'] will work.

But I forget what the problem was. In a boolean context, you can just say

test="local-name()='xyz'".

Yes, quite. Thanks for the correction. When not in a boolean context, one might avoid self::node()[local-name()='xyz'] as it also selects any self <xyz> elements you have cluttering your data. If you know you're on an attribute, the boolean test suffices.

Bottom line is that XPath 1.0 gives no way to select all attributes *except* a given one other than the resort to the name test.

XPath 2.0 can select "@* except attribute(xyz)", which is very nice.

Cheers,
Wendell


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