RE: Using not(...a nd ... ) to select nodes

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Subject: RE: Using not(...a nd ... ) to select nodes
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 17:14:25 -0400

Chris,

Well, it's true I made a couple of assumptions (based on your description) about how your input data looks. To wit: that the values you are checking are all element children of the nodes you are testing (and not, for example, attributes).

Could we see a snippet of input data to confirm whether this is the case?

Yes, it's true preceding-sibling::* returns all preceding siblings. But the predicate expression filters this list. The trick is to get the filter right.

Cheers,
Wendell

At 05:02 PM 7/10/2003, you wrote:

Thanks for the try.

What you said makes complete sense and it looked to me like it should
work, but now I have the opposite problem... It's including everything.
:p

Preceding-sibling::* means ALL preceding siblings, correct?  If not,
that may be my problem, because the XML is not sorted/grouped in an
orderly fashion *grimace*.

Chris


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Wendell Piez
> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 4:11 PM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  Using not(...a nd ... ) to select nodes
>
>
> Chris,
>
> Try
>
> select="items/item[not(preceding-sibling::*
>    [name=current()/name and
>     type = current()/type and
>    status = current()/status])]"
>
> The problem with your statement is it's testing true if there no
> corresponding values on any preceding siblings, whereas you
> want it to be
> true only if there's a preceding sibling with all
> corresponding values.
>
> I hope that works for you--
>
> Cheers,
> Wendell

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