RE: apply-templates with exceptions

> 
> Hey, just found out how to get a "negative" node list (thank-you, 
> archives!):
> 
> <xsl:apply-templates select="*[not(name() = 'title')]" />
> 
> I'll use this unless anyone has a cleaner or more efficient method?
> 

Well, it's definitely better to write select="*[not(self::title)] if you
know the name at compile time (for a start, it avoids namespace
complications).

In XPath 2.0 you can write select="* except title".

Another approach is to apply-templates on all the elements (perhaps in a
special mode) and then define a null template

<xsl:template match="title" mode="xxx"/>

This last approach is definitely the neatest once you have a (growing)
list of elements to be excluded.

Michael Kay


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