Wendell,
Glad we agree on this. In XSLT 2.0 one can have exactly the same kind
of question with the only minor difference that it is about a sequence
of items.
Therefore, the fact that people are proposing more general solutions,
doesn't mean they have forgotten about the XPath 2.0 "except"
operator.
Cheers,
Dimitre
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Wendell Piez
<wapiez(_at_)wendellpiez(_dot_)com> wrote:
Dimitre,
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Dimitre Novatchev
<dnovatchev(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
extent except (extent[1],extent[last()])
I know, not so funny. Or memorable, since apparently no one ever
remembers 'except'. :-)
Except that this is only defined for sequences of nodes, while the
other answers would also operate on arbitrary sequences.
True. IIRC the OP stipulated the problem using EAD 'extent' elements,
not in the general case. :-)
Another potential issue: doesn't "except" cause deduplication?
It will, and it will also sort nodes into document order; again here
that's not a problem.
Cheers, Wendell
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