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Re: Ways to express "what I don't want"

• From: Mukul Gandhi <gandhi.mukul@gmail.com>
• To: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
• Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 19:35:35 +0530

Perhaps following more additions.

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Costello, Roger L. <costello@mitre.org> wrote:

Extending the following XPath examples for list values.

> 1. Selecting a set of nodes as long as the node is not XYX, e.g., ./*[not(self::XYZ)] means "I don't want the XYZ child nodes"

./*[not(name() = ('x','y','z'))]

> 2. Selecting a set of nodes as long as the node does not have the value ABC, e.g., ./*[. ne ABC] means "I don't want the child nodes with value ABC"

./*[not(. = ('x','y','z'))]




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Mukul Gandhi

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