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From: "Dimitre Novatchev" <dimitren@---.---.-->
To: NULL
Date: 4/10/2007 5:42:00 AM



"hoosie" <hoosiemama@g...> wrote in message 
news:1176152100.066380.193130@y......
> Hi,
>
> I am stuck on a problem, how can I remove all elements from 1 list
> from another?
>
> Suppose I have the following:
>
> <values>
>   <value>hello</value>
>   <value>my</value>
>   <value>name</value>
>   <value>is</value>
>   <value>scooby</value>
> </values>
>
> and
>
> <removeList>
>   <value>my</value>
>   <value>hello</value>
> </removeList>
>
> and I want:
>
> <resultList>
>   <value>name</value>
>   <value>is</value>
>   <value>scooby</value>
> </resultList>
>
> Any elegant way to do this?


Suppose that the xslt variables $vValues and $vRemoveList are defined to 
contain the two corresponding xml documents. Then the requiret node-set is 
selected by the following XPath 1.0 expression:

     $vValues/value[not(. = $vRemoveList /value)]


Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev

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