The example I gave represents an HTML document that I've no
control over, each node is a text node and I was hoping to
get the entire text string, minus the text contained in child
node 'c'. Is it somehow possible to iterate all nodes within
a specific path and concatenate their text content?
Conditional on the node not being 'c' ? I've read about a few
of the string functions but it's a little beyond me to figure
out at the moment.
In XPath 2.0 that's something like
string-join((/document/a//text() except /document/a//c/text()), "")
Offhand I'd say that it can't be done in XPath 1.0. But I think you're
stretching XPath anyway - you should be thinking about using XSLT or XQuery.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
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