RE: Restrictions on pattern for the match attribute of

Thanks a lot for this. However, this leads me to another question;
what's the difference between

match="Object[PropertyList/Property[Name='Property1][Value='abc']]"

and

match="Object[PropertyList/Property[Name='Property1 and Value='abc']]"

Which one is preferred and why?

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Kay [mailto:mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 11:54 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE:  Restrictions on pattern for the match attribute of
the xsl:template element

>
> I have an XML document like this:
>
> ============================
> <Objects>
> 	<Object>
> 		<PropertyList>
> 			<Property>
> 				<Name>Property1</Name>
> 				<Value>abc</Value>
> 			</Property>
> 		</PropertyList>
> 	</Object>
> 	<Object>
> 		<PropertyList>
> 			<Property>
> 				<Name>Property1</Name>
> 				<Value>xyz</Value>
> 			</Property>
> 		</PropertyList>
> 	</Object>
> </Objects>
> ============================
>
> and I want to extract all <Object> elements except the ones that have
> [Name='Property1' and Value='abc'] (there are several such
> restrictions on Name / Value pairs). I tried the following but the 2nd

> match pattern is not allowed in XSLT:
>
> <xsl:template
> match="/Objects/*/PropertyList/Property[./Name='Property1'
> and ./Value='abc']/../.." priority="1"/>
>
>
> How could I achieve this?
>

match="Object[PropertyList/Property[Name='Property1][Value='abc']]"

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/


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