Subject: Re: [xsl] [XPath] matching elements which satisfy a specific content model From: Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 04:58:25 -0800 (PST) |
> > The match pattern is: > > > > variablelist[*[position() = 1 and (self::title or > > self::varlistentry)] > > > > and not(*[position() > 1 and not(self::varlistentry)]) > > ] > > > Thanks. > > The length and complexity of that XPath reinforces my request for > some verx simple syntax/function, so that the length and the level of > simplicity of the content model is matched by the matching pattern: The above is a *relatively simple* and quite self-explaining XPath expression. If you need an example of a really *complex* one, do have a look at: http://www.topxml.com/code/default.asp?p=3&id=v20021204102543 > > eg > variablelist[content-model(../, 'title?,varlistentry+')] > > In other words: > (title?,varlistentry+) is so *very* simple, that I think there should > be way to write it in a very simple way. This only *looks* simple, because from the seven types of nodes you're using only the element type. Add to this the potential of having some additional predicates attached... Another problem is that this will result in mixing two considerably different approaches for specifying node-sets of a tree. In XPath/XSLT 2.0 this is unnecessary, because one has access to the PSVI type annotations -- am I correct, ver. 2 gurus? ===== Cheers, Dimitre Novatchev. http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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