RE: [xsl] RE: apply-templates and excluding a node

["Zwetselaar M. van (Marco)" <Marco.van.Zwetselaar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Meltem Kogelbauer wrote on Thursday, October 04, 2001 4:37 PM:

> I found the solution already
> 
> it is <xsl:apply-templates select="*[not(self::PRFID)]" />
> 
> What I do not undestand is why "self" why not "child"? Can 
> anyone explain this?

The * means: select all child elements. Then the predicate gets applied to
each of the selected nodes, and filters only the matching ones. Since you've
got the children already, you want to check on them, not on their children.
Does this help?

Regards,
Marco


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