Re: [XPath] matching elements which satisfy a specific

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Subject: Re: [XPath] matching elements which satisfy a specific content model
From: Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 10:56:14 +0100

Oleg Tkachenko wrote:

How to write

title?, varlistentry+

in XPath?
It's pattern actually

sure :)

What about simple
<t:template match="variablelist[varlistentry]">

But this by far is not an equivalent of what I described. It is insufficient.

Or more strict <t:template match="variablelist[*[1][self::title] and *[2][self::varlistentry] | variablelist[*[1][self::varlistentry]">

... and this is too complex and too long for my taste.

But it looks too convolute,

Exactly.

patterns are supposed to be simple,

Exactly! :)

why do you need so strict matching?

Why? Well, it's very common in my (and in many others I would think) transformation to say thinks like "All variablelist elements containing nothing but an optional element title followed by one or more varlistentry elements are translated to simple dl(dt,dd)+ lists".

In any case:

I think that very simple things like contains(title?, varlistentry+) should be very simple to express in XPath. If I'm still not missigng something obvious: Perhaps something like a content-model() function will be available as extension or in XSLT2?

Tobi

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[XPath] matching elements which satisfy a specific content model
- Tobias Reif - Mon, 13 Jan 2003 04:18:59 -0500 (EST)
  - Oleg Tkachenko - Mon, 13 Jan 2003 04:38:29 -0500 (EST)
    - Tobias Reif - Mon, 13 Jan 2003 04:55:43 -0500 (EST) <=
      - David Carlisle - Mon, 13 Jan 2003 05:41:53 -0500 (EST)
      - Tobias Reif - Mon, 13 Jan 2003 06:14:36 -0500 (EST)
      - Michael Kay - Thu, 16 Jan 2003 09:46:34 -0500 (EST)
      - Tobias Reif - Thu, 16 Jan 2003 10:16:31 -0500 (EST)

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