Re: Re: Re: Change of Attribute Value

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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Change of Attribute Value
From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 17:45:56 -0500

At 2005-11-04 22:10 +0000, David Carlisle wrote:

> Bottom line is that XPath 1.0 gives no way to select all attributes
> *except* a given one other than the resort to the name test.
> XPath 2.0 can select "@* except attribute(xyz)", which is very nice.

which means in xpath 1 you can select

@*[count(.|../@xyz)=2] which is even nicer?

I went to the trouble of writing up the above in a post before leaving for an afternoon appointment, and then purposely trashed it before sending because I realized that you have to know @xyz exists ... if it doesn't exist, then none of the attributes get copied.

That left me with:

@*[not(../@xyz) or count(.|../@xyz)=2]

... which is probably how I'd want to go if the attribute was namespace qualified to avoid using name() and namespace-uri().

But not elegant (cough!) enough to actually *recommend* to someone.

. . . . . . . . Ken


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RE: Re: Re: Change of Attribute Value, (continued)
- Wendell Piez - 4 Nov 2005 21:26:31 -0000
  - David Carlisle - 4 Nov 2005 22:11:21 -0000
    - Wendell Piez - 4 Nov 2005 22:27:01 -0000
    - David Carlisle - 4 Nov 2005 22:43:39 -0000
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    - Wendell Piez - 7 Nov 2005 23:09:58 -0000
    - David Carlisle - 7 Nov 2005 23:35:29 -0000
    - G. Ken Holman - 8 Nov 2005 02:05:06 -0000
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