Re: [xsl] Using not(...a nd ... ) to select nodes

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris,

Try

select="items/item[not(preceding-sibling::*
  [name=current()/name and
   type = current()/type and
  status = current()/status])]"

The problem with your statement is it's testing true if there no 
corresponding values on any preceding siblings, whereas you want it to be 
true only if there's a preceding sibling with all corresponding values.

I hope that works for you--

Cheers,
Wendell

At 03:43 PM 7/10/2003, you wrote:
> I'm trying to create a node set that only contains different nodes.  The
> problem I'm running into is I seem to be losing nodes that I shouldn't.
>
> I'm using the following to select the nodes:
>
> <xsl:for-each select="items/item[not(name = preceding-sibling::*/name
> and type = preceding-sibling::*/type and status =
> preceding-sibling::*/status)]">
>
>
> An example from the XML might be: truck,silverado,chevy,on
> truck,silverado,chevy,off truck,ranger,ford,on  truck,silverado,chevy,on
> truck,silverado,chevy,off
>
> >From that I want to see the first three in a node set.  However, what
> I'm getting are the second and third ones.
>
> Any suggestions would be much appreciated.


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