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Re: xpath to select all the elements in XML with one exception only

From: scott.w.white@-----.---
To: NULL
Date: 3/19/2008 12:51:00 PM
On Feb 7, 12:52 pm, Martin Honnen <mahotr...@yahoo.de> wrote:
> Martin Honnen wrote:
> > XPath selects nodes in an existing documents, it does not change the
> > document. Therefore if you select the root element 'tag1' in your
> > example then it has all its children, you can't remove some of the
> > children with XPath alone, you need XSLT for that.
>
> However if you wanted to select only certain child elements of the root
> element tag1 then you can do that as follows:
>    /tag1/*[not(self::tag3[not(tag4 = '7')])]
> That selects all those child elements that are not 'tag3' elements not
> having a 'tag4' child element with contents '7'.
>
> --
>
>         Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
>        http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

That was a very helpful snippet Martin thanks for that.


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