RE: Ridiculous XPath expression, can I reduce it?

This XPath actually comes from some Java code, so I am able to fiddle with
the nodes (I think I mentioned that earlier)...

Cheers,

Nick

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 03 April 2001 14:14
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  Ridiculous XPath expression, can I reduce it?
> 
> 
> 
> can't you just go
> 
> <xsl:template match="input.form">
>  <xsl:for-each select="*[not(self::input.form or self::input.link)]">
> ...
> 
> 
> > Once I've processed an <input.form> element I mark it with a 'done'
> > attribute to stop it being processed again (trust me on that one).
> 
> No I don't trust that at all! XSLT has a read-only input tree.
> Ypur posted Xpath was looking at done attributes in the 
> source tree, so
> it couldn't reflect processing that had been done with this stylesheet
> (unless you are using some extension function somewhere)
> 
> David
> 
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