Re: [xsl] Need help OR'ing in XPATH.

[Glen Mazza <grm7793@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -------- Mensaje original --------
> Asunto: Re: [xsl] Need help OR'ing in XPATH.
> Fecha: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 14:25:38 +0530
> De: Mukul Gandhi <gandhi.mukul@xxxxxxxxx>
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>
> Please try this
>
> <xsl:apply-templates select="book[(owner = 'aaa') or (chapter/owner =
> 'aaa')]" />

That solved it, thanks Mukul (and Michael).

Glen


> Regards,
> Mukul
>
> On 3/22/06, Glen Mazza <grm7793@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > For my contrived example below, I would like to select all book nodes
> > whose owner is "aaa" *or* which have a chapter whose owner is "aaa", and
> > I would like the books to be retrieved in the same general order as the
> > xml document, i.e., the query for the example below would process books
> > with id's 1, 3, 4 (in that order), not 1, 4, 3.
> >
> > I can do the XPATH for *either* of the two cases, but don't know how to
> > combine the two for an OR search in my xsl:apply-templates select 
> > statement.
> >
> > <xsl:a-t select="book[owner='aaa'] or book/chapter[owner='aaa']"/>
> >
> > is kind of what I want, but Xalan is complaining that my select
> > attribute is just returning a boolean, so my syntax is apparently wrong.
> >
> > Any help would be much appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Glen
> >
> >
> > <book id="1">
> >     <owner>aaa</owner>
> >     <chapter>
> >         <owner>bbb</owner>
> >     </chapter>
> >     <chapter>
> >         <owner>ccc</owner>
> >     </chapter>
> > </book>
> > <book id="2">
> >     <owner>bbb</owner>
> >     <chapter>
> >         <owner>bbb</owner>
> >     </chapter>
> >     <chapter>
> >         <owner>ccc</owner>
> >     </chapter>
> > </book>
> > <book id="3">
> >     <owner>ccc</owner>
> >     <chapter>
> >         <owner>aaa</owner>
> >     </chapter>
> >     <chapter>
> >         <owner>ccc</owner>
> >     </chapter>
> > </book>
> > <book id="4">
> >     <owner>aaa</owner>
> >     <chapter>
> >         <owner>bbb</owner>
> >     </chapter>
> >     <chapter>
> >         <owner>ccc</owner>
> >     </chapter>
> > </book>