Subject: Re: [xsl] Keys with duplicates should be simple From: Ihe Onwuka <ihe.onwuka@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 11:31:41 +0000 |
or you can just not use it. Thank you Wendell. On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ihe, > >>> http://www.biglist.com/lists/lists.mulberrytech.com/xsl-list/archives/201211/msg00170.html > > Indeed. You are not the only one to find 'except' to be contrary to > what you expect, in view of its natural-language usage in English. > (D*mned prepositions.) > > When reading XPath, my brain more or less automatically assumes > everything is a relative path from the context node (that is, it > traverses the tree relatively until an absolute path is given), so I > mentally translate ($a except $b) as "my $a except my $b". So "my $a > except my 'blah' element children" ($a except blah) doesn't freak me > out. > > In English, "breakfast except donuts" should indicate (as you remind > us in that thread) "breakfast except (its) donuts", while I read it as > "(my) breakfast except (my) donuts". Or XPath "$breakfast except > child::donut". (It turns out that being mentally able to translate > abbreviated XPath into long XPath is also a useful skill.) > > Or, you can take "except" in its sense not as a preposition but a > transitive verb, such as "he excepted himself on the grounds that he > had already said too much". > > Cheers, Wendell > > -- > Wendell Piez | http://www.wendellpiez.com > XML | XSLT | electronic publishing > Eat Your Vegetables > _____oo_________o_o___ooooo____ooooooo_^
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