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From the XPath specification, I know para[@type = "warning"] selects all para nodes with an attribute type = "warning." Similarly, para[@type] selects all para nodes with a type attribute. Is it possible to get an inversion of the latter? i.e. "all para nodes that do NOT contain a type attribute OR nodes that contain a value not equal to warning?" My source is like this (roughly): <fields> <field id="foo" pkey="true"/> <field id="foo2/> </fields> I want to select all non-pkey field nodes, but this search fields/field[@pkey != 'true'] results in an empty set because it's only taking into consideration nodes that have a value at all. From the note at the end of XPath section 5.3 (http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xpath-19991116.html#attribute-nodes) I gather that I need to use a validating XML parser if I want this to work at all. Okay, so I can put in pkey = false on the input, or I need to always use a DTD and validating parser. Fine. But is there a way to do it with a non-validating parser for speed and to not have this (perhaps not immediately apparent) dependency on a validating parser for my stylesheet? regards, kd XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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