Re: How to select elements that do not have certain de

> I want to select those elements that do *not* have a descendant.
not having any descendant is the same as not having a child which is

select="*[not(*)]"

your subject line though says "certain descendants" to select all child
elements of the current node that don't have a foo or bar descendent

select="*[not(.//*[self::foo or self::bar])]

David

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