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Re: XPath help

Subject: Re: XPath help
From: Jeni Tennison <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 16:53:38 +0100
xpath ignore namespace local name
Hi Jeffrey,

> Any ideas on which answer is correct?

It depends how much you care about namespaces.

  *[not(name()='a' or name()='b')]

Gives you all the elements aside from a and b elements that are in the
default namespace in their document. I'd tend to steer clear of this
because the default namespace could be anything at all.

  [not(self::a or self::b)]

Gives you all the elements aside from a and b elements that are in no
namespace. Use this if the a and b elements that you want to ignore
don't have a namespace or if you're not using namespaces at all.

  *[not(local-name()='a' or local-name()='b')]

Gives you all the elements aside from a and b elements in any
namespace. Use this if you want to ignore all a and b elements no
matter what namespace they're in.

Cheers,

Jeni

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