"Bhavin" <v2desperado@g...> wrote in message 
news:1175375390.513236.294300@y......
>I had to find " Teams which do not have defenders."
>
> My XML file Look this way
>
> <playoffs>
>    <team id="ID0">
>        <name>Legia</name>
>    </team>
>    <team id="ID1">
>        <name>Brazil</name>
>    </team>
> <team id="ID2">
>        <name>ManU</name>
>
>    <player id="101" team-id="ID0" dob="string" role="GoalKeeper">
>    </player>
>    <player id="102" team-id="ID0" dob="string" role="Attack">
>    </player>
>    <player id="103" team-id="ID0" dob="string" role="Defense">
>    </player>
>
>    <player id="201" team-id="ID1" dob="string" role="GoalKeeper">
>    </player>
>    <player id="202" team-id="ID1" dob="string" role="Attack">
>    </player>
>    <player id="203" team-id="ID1" dob="string" role="Defense">
>    </player>
>
>
>    <player id="a1" team-id="ID2" dob="string" role="GoalKeeper">
>    </player>
>    <player id="a2" team-id="ID2" dob="string" role="Attack">
>    </player>
>    <player id="a3" team-id="ID2" dob="string" role="Attack">
>    </player>
>
> </playoffs>
>
>
> When I Write the above Xpath query in this manner
>
> 1] /playoffs/team[@id != /playoffs/player[@role="Defense"]/@team-id]/
> name
> -this querry only works when there is only 1 defense including  all
> the team
> - When there is 1 defense in each team it is showing me all teams
>
> But over here i need the output TEAM " ManU" who does not have any
> defender
>
> i dont know i am somewhere wrong..................plz help me if u can
> I really appreciated your efforts..........I know this querry is
> little bit Confusing
>
> Thank you
>

You are using != instead of not(). The former, in this usage instance, means 
that there are some nodes that satisfy the condition, the latter means that 
no nodes do.
( I added a closing team tag to the example XML after the ManU team.)

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <xsl:template match="/">
    <defenderLessTeams>
      <xsl:apply-templates select="playoffs/team[not(@id = 
/playoffs/player[@role='Defense']/@team-id)]"/>
    </defenderLessTeams>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="team"><xsl:copy-of select="."/></xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>


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