Re: [xsl] Using variables to get the complement of a node set

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Glossing David again,

If you have

<xsl:variable name="alpha" select="A | B | C | D"/>

Keep in mind this will bind $alpha only to the A,B,C and D children of 
the context (the root if the variable declaration is global).

You can bind to all the A|B|C|D in the document with

<xsl:variable name="alpha" select="//A | //B | //C | //D"/>

On 2/10/2012 6:42 AM, David Carlisle wrote:
> > <xsl:template match="* except $alpha"/>
> no that would be a legal xpath but not a pattern
>
> > or
> > <xsl:template match="*[not $alpha]"/>
>
> no, that's a syntax error so wouldn't run at all

<xsl:template match="*[exists(. except $alpha)]">

will work with the declaration of $alpha given above.

Of course this will tend to be much less efficient than what David suggests:

> easiest is
>
> <xsl:template match="*"> the complement
>
> <xsl:template match="A|B|C|D" priority="2"> this one

I've had times when I wanted to parameterize match patterns though.

Cheers,
Wendell

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