Re: XPath expression "everything but..." ?

On Wednesday, February 14, 2001 10:47 AM
Fridiric SCHWEBEL wrote:

> Is it possible to have an XPath expression that means "every child
but one"
> ?
[..]
> <xsl:template match="chapter">
>    <H1><xsl:apply-templates select="title" /></H1>
>    <xsl:apply-templates select="* but not title" />
> </xsl:template>
>
Jiri and Francis have provided general solutions (which was what you
asked for) But if the only reason you want to exclude the <title>
element is that you want it, and it alone, to be in an html <h1>
element, there's another way (which may just be less
processor-intensive, I don't know)

Simplify your template to
<xsl:template match="chapter">
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
 </xsl:template>

Then provide a template matching on "title" (or maybe chapter/title,
depends on your document structure)
that does <h1><xsl:apply-templates/></h1>

Sometimes I think we get a bit carried away with all these clever
brackety quotey thingies. Not everything that works in XSLT is
visually terrifying...

Michael
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