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Michael Doyle wrote: > Using XPath, I want to get all elements FOO which are not children of > BAR. > > What i have done in this instance is: > //FOO[name(..)!='BAR'] You do not need name checks, you can simply do //FOO[not(parent::BAR)] > this only works when BAR is immediately below FOO, That is what you want if your description above is correct: FOO elements which are not children of BAR. If you want FOO elements which are not descendants of BAR then you can use //FOO[not(ancestor::BAR)] -- Martin Honnen http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

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