Subject: RE: [xsl] general purpose filter stylesheet From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 12:21:06 -0000 |
> you wrote: > [I don't know what the intended semantics of your expression > are. Perhaps > it's equivalent to the XPath expression > > ((//author='Date' or //title='Database Systems') and //number='1') > > in which case doing the translation into XPath might not be > too difficult.] > > That right that thios would not be to hard, BUT what would > XSLT return. > I could only specify one node type in my match attribute: a > parent of number > which is issue. > > But then I would get the whole issue subtree with ALL > articles, EVEN those > whose author is NOT 'Date' and the title is NOT 'Database > Systems'. But I > want my query ONLY to return this part of my XML that make > sense to the query. Precisely. Defining the syntax and semantics of a new query language is not easy, so I suggest you use the one we've already got, namely XPath. Michael Kay Software AG home: Michael.H.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx work: Michael.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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