From: Jeni Tennison <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: "Jeffrey Langdon" <jl_xsl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  XPath help
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 16:53:38 +0100

Hi Jeffrey,

> Any ideas on which answer is correct?

It depends how much you care about namespaces.

*[not(name()='a' or name()='b')]

Gives you all the elements aside from a and b elements that are in the
default namespace in their document. I'd tend to steer clear of this
because the default namespace could be anything at all.

[not(self::a or self::b)]

Gives you all the elements aside from a and b elements that are in no
namespace. Use this if the a and b elements that you want to ignore
don't have a namespace or if you're not using namespaces at all.

*[not(local-name()='a' or local-name()='b')]

Gives you all the elements aside from a and b elements in any
namespace. Use this if you want to ignore all a and b elements no
matter what namespace they're in.

Cheers,

Jeni

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