Re: [xsl] xpath question

[David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

I can't remember if you are using xslt2 or xslt1, a direct encoding of

> if I want to locate only the <scene>
> element under ALL<list1> elements in the whole XML input inside the
> <list1> template, and NOT the <scene> element under <list2>, 

in xpath2 would be

.//scene except .//list2//scene

in xpath1 you could use

.//scene[not(ancestor::list2)]

(which doesn't mean quite the same thing in general but will select the
same things so long as list1 is never a descendent of list2.

However are you sure you need to process all scene elements out of
sequence like this?

more commonly in xslt you woul djust have a tempolate for scene elements

<xsl:tempate match="scene">...

and a higher priority template for scenes under list2


<xsl:tempate match="list2//scene">...

and so don't need to explictly select those scenes which are under list1
but not under list2, they automatically are matced by the first
template.

David

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