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Subject: RE: Selecting all descendants with no child nodes
From: Kay Michael <Michael.Kay@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 18:47:01 +0100 
> I'm using the XPath expression "//*[count(*)=0]" to locate 
> all "endpoint" nodes.
> 
> Is there any other way to achieve this, an alternative syntax?

You can always replace "count(X)=0" by "not(X)", and it'd probably more
efficient. So in this case, "//*[not(*)]"

Mike Kay


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