RE: XPath optional node question

["Lynn Monson" <lmonson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> My try for a solution was incorrect -- a straightforward XPath solution
> might not be possible.

If my path is rooted at the document (/foo/...), I thought of the following
(the syntax isn't quite right, but hopefully its clear):

/foo//bar[ !ancestor::*[name()!='foo' and name()!='a' and name()!='b' ]]

But that won't work if my path is a relative one...


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