Re: [xsl] Re: Re: Change of Attribute Value

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2005-11-04 22:10 +0000, David Carlisle wrote:
> > Bottom line is that XPath 1.0 gives no way to select all attributes
> > *except* a given one other than the resort to the name test.
>
> > XPath 2.0 can select "@* except attribute(xyz)", which is very nice.
>
> which means in xpath 1 you can select
>
>  @*[count(.|../@xyz)=2] which is even nicer?

I went to the trouble of writing up the above in a post before 
leaving for an afternoon appointment, and then purposely trashed it 
before sending because I realized that you have to know @xyz exists 
... if it doesn't exist, then none of the attributes get copied.

That left me with:

  @*[not(../@xyz) or count(.|../@xyz)=2]

... which is probably how I'd want to go if the attribute was 
namespace qualified to avoid using name() and namespace-uri().

But not elegant (cough!) enough to actually *recommend* to someone.

. . . . . . . . Ken


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