Subject: Re: [xsl] Xpath 1.0 Question : Excluding Attributes? From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:16:57 +0100 |
Simon Shutter wrote:Hi Abel,
Sorry for the confusion. I meant only attribute nodes so I assume from your examples that I have to put the entire path before each attribute of interest.
Ie // tier1 / tier2 / @attrb1 | // tier1 / tier2 / @attrb2
Is there a way to exclude specific attributes in Xpath 1.0?
Well, like I said, usually the easiest way to do that is by using an identity transform (see my examples), but I haven't seen your code so I can't tell it's the right approach.
With any of your XPaths, however, this works for excluding attributes:
//tier1/tier2/@*[not(local-name() = 'exclude-me')]
and this with QNames:
//tier1/tier2/@*[not(name() = 'ns:exclude-me')]
//tier1/tier2/@*[not(local-name()='exclude-me' and namespace-uri()='...insert URI here ....')]
//tier1/tier2/@*[not(local-name()='exclude-me' and namespace-uri()=document('')/*/namespace::ns)]
//tier1/tier2/@*[not(../@ns:exclude-me and count(.|../@ns:exclude-me)=1)]
Finally, you may have hoped this would work, like it does for normal axis:
//tier1/tier2/@*[not(self::exclude-me)]
but then you try to test for the self::node() being an 'exclude-me' element node, but self::node() is not an element, it is an attribute (the reason is, technically speaking, that the principal node kind of self:: is the element node, and you can't switch that). Unfortunately, XPath does not have a way to express a self::node() axis when the axis is the attribute axis. I.e., this won't work (illegal):
//tier1/tier2/@*[not(self::@exclude-me)]
XPath 2.0 has a workaround for this (also note the way of using parenthesis, which is not legal for XPath 1.0, but in this case saves a lot of re-typing the parent path):
//tier1/tier2/(@* except @exclude-me)
HTH, -- Abel Braaksma http://www.nuntia.nl
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