Thank you very much, but i figure out the prb if u want solution i can
post it. Once again thank you......................i really appreciate
your efforts
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On Apr 1, 6:25 am, "Joe Fawcett" <joefawc...@newsgroup.nospam> wrote:
> "Bhavin" <v2desper...@gmail.com> 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>
>
> --
>
> Joe Fawcett (MVP - XML)http://joe.fawcett.name