Re: [xsl] Automatically generate xpath

["Liron" <magilam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you for your replies (Jay and David so far)

You showed me how to use union for two xpaths but how would I remove a node 
from a xpath? If you look at my previous example lets say I want to select 
all text nodes besides the last one. But lets say that I already have a 
xpath that looks like this: /html/body/table/tr/td/font/a/b/text() which is 
something that my project generates according to a user selection (visually 
selects a range of nodes) and I want to use it with the exclusion of 
/html/body/table[2]/tr[2]/td/font/a[3]/b/text()
because the user later on decided he doesn't want that node in the output.
I don't want to create more complex expressions like 
/html/body/table/tr/td/font/a["exclude if parent table's count is 1 and tr's 
count is 1 and self's count is 2"]/b/text() because I might want later on to 
exclude more nodes or insert more nodes or even insert again the ones I 
already excluded, and lets assume that I even want to write a function that 
handles all this it would probably be inefficient.
How would I remove a node from the list with something simple like "not |"? 
"not" is boolean so that won't work but I need something simple that doesn't 
manipulate my original xpath.


Thank you
Liron


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Carlisle" <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 11:44 PM
Subject: Re: [xsl] Automatically generate xpath


> > and get an output that looks something like:
> But what rules do you want to apply?
> If you just wanted to get an xpath that returned Text1 and Text2 you
> could just take the union of your input paths, ie
>
> (
> /html/body/table[1]/tr[1]/td/font/a[1]/b/text()
> |
> /html/body/table[2]/tr[2]/td/font/a[3]/b/text()
> )
>
> David
>
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