Re: [xsl] to get the descendants at only one level - xpath

[Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx>]

Senthil Nathan wrote:
> Actually I'm giving the xpath query to the libxml2 library and it
> returns everything under that path for that query.
> /root/level1/child::*
>
> I tried the other solution also, /root/level1/* which also does the same.

XPath does select nodes in an existing document, it does not change that 
document. So the result of that XPath is a node-set with the child 
elements at the third level but those elements keep their own children. 
If you want to manipulate a document you need XSLT (or XQuery).


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