Re: Exclusions in XPATH

> Question 1: Can I get both attribute-names and element-names more easily in
> the select or does it have to be like I have it above ?

it's hard to answer that without knowing what your criterion for
selection was intended to be.
the select expression you had was

select="./*[1]//*[not(*)]|./*[1]//@*[not(*)]">	 

a leading ./ never does anything, and attributes never have element
 children so that can be simplified to

select="*[1]//*[not(*)]|*[1]//@*">	

which selects all the attributes and leaf elements of descendents of the
first child of the current node.

In your posted example the *[1] isn't doing anything as there is only
one child of A, so if that is always the case, or if you want all
descendents of A not just of the first child, it can be further
simplified to

select=".//*[not(*)]|.//@*">	

> How can I exclude the descendants of element F 

select="*[1]//*[not(*) and not ancestor::F]|*[1]//*[not(ancestor::F)]/@*">	

David

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