RE: XPath: excluding a descendant

> why not? It appears to do exactly what you want. Did you try it?

Well, I did, but probably I am doing it wrong... In your earlier message, you wrote: 

> just have
> <xsl:apply-templates select="abcd:Gathering"/>
> together with a template 
> <xsl:template match="LongitudeDecimal"/>
> that does nothing on thse elements.
> then when you do want to process the elements do (according to taste)
> 
> <xsl:apply-templates
> abcd:Gathering/GatheringSite/SiteCoordinates/LongitudeDecimal"
> mode="somemode"/>
> 
> together with some templates in somemode to do whatever needs doing or
> if you don't want a new mode do
> 
> <xsl:apply-templates
> abcd:Gathering/GatheringSite/SiteCoordinates/LongitudeDecimal/node()"
> />
> 
> so you process the children of LongitudeDecimal.


So I do have something very simple like
<xsl:template match="/">
(...)
    <xsl:apply-templates select="abcd:Gathering"/>
(...)
<xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="LongitudeDecimal">
    <!-- do nothing -->
</xsl:template>

There are no children to LongitudeDecimal, so I would not have to process them. But what I still don't understand is the rest of it: how do I apply the LongitudeDecimal-template to Gathering, so that the "empty" template rule overrules the output I get from just calling the Gathering node? 



-----Original Message-----
From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Dienstag, 2. September 2003 13:43
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Subject: Re:  XPath: excluding a descendant
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