Re: Are nodes atomic values?

By atomic i meant it's greek meaning of "indivisible".

But let me modify my scenario:

Giving

<Menu>
  <Name>aaa</Name>
  <Menu>
      <Name>bbb</Name>
  </Menu>
</Menu>

can i have a XPath that returns only

<Menu>
  <Name>aaa</Name>
  <Menu/>
</Menu>

I think i'm thinking wrong in saying that "XPath returns", the correct
should be "XPath selects", so it can't select something that doesn't
exist, so what i want is not possible.

But then again i was thinking in something like along a predicate with
not(child::Menu) or something...






On 9/9/05, David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> what do you mean by "atomic value" The term isn't used in XPath 1 but in
> XPath2 it has a defined meaning (and means, essentially all values that
> are not a node) so the answer to your question for XPath2 at least might
> be "no".
>
> > is there a XPath expr that selects only
> >
> > <Menu>
> >    <Name>aaa</Name>
> > </Menu>
>
> No, in XSLT XPath only selects into input trees not result trees and
> theer is no such node in the input.
> If you save the result into a temporary tree (either directly in XSLT2,
> or using an xx:node-set extension in XSLT1) then you could of course
> select that node from the temporary tree after building the tree with
> xslt. Gowever I see you mentioned firefox which is one of the few XSLT1
> systems not to offer a node-set extension.
>
> David
>
>
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