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RE: XPath challenge: can you simplify this XPathexpression?

• From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>
• To: "'xml-dev@l...'" <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 12:53:07 -0400

I was just informed that the predicate [1] is not needed outside the except() function.

So, the super, super XPath is David's solution:


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Title and Date and empty(* except (Title[1], Date[1], Author))

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Incredible.

/Roger

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