Re: [xsl] Re: Re: Change of Attribute Value

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 05:45 PM 11/4/2005, Ken wrote:
> At 2005-11-04 22:10 +0000, David Carlisle wrote:
> > > Bottom line is that XPath 1.0 gives no way to select all attributes
> > > *except* a given one other than the resort to the name test.
> >
> > > XPath 2.0 can select "@* except attribute(xyz)", which is very nice.
> >
> > which means in xpath 1 you can select
> >
> >  @*[count(.|../@xyz)=2] which is even nicer?
>
> I went to the trouble of writing up the above in a post before 
> leaving for an afternoon appointment, and then purposely trashed it 
> before sending because I realized that you have to know @xyz exists 
> ... if it doesn't exist, then none of the attributes get copied.
>
> That left me with:
>
>   @*[not(../@xyz) or count(.|../@xyz)=2]
>
> ... which is probably how I'd want to go if the attribute was 
> namespace qualified to avoid using name() and namespace-uri().
>
> But not elegant (cough!) enough to actually *recommend* to someone.

Yes well I think we've already gone considerably outside the bounds 
of anything we'd do without apologies ... the discussion has entered 
the deeper realms of XPathology.

<plug>Hey folks! Ken and I are sharing a platform at XML 2005 in 
Atlanta next week! see the CT track at 
http://www.idealliance.org/xmlusa/2005/schedule.html#thursday</plug>

Cheers,
Wendell



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