Subject: RE: Ignoring Child Nodes using XPath
From: Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 10:47:15 -0800 (PST)
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Ciaran Byrne wrote:
> Sorry,
> I should have mentioned the fact that I'm not using the
> XPath Query in an XSL stylesheet but rather to select the
> node in MSXML i.e. dom.selectsinglenode("XPath Query").
>
> I know I could concat the element together by getting the element
> name and attributes but I thought there might have been a
> more efficient solution using an XPath Query.
You can't -- XPath doesn't change the nodes in any way, and you want
to change a node, bu stripping it of its children.
As Mike already pointed out, the solution is through a transformation,
and using XSLT to perform a transformation is much more natural than
using DOM methods.
Hope this helped.
Dimitre Novatchev.
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