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Re: RE: apply-templates and excluding a node

Subject: Re: RE: apply-templates and excluding a node
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 12:23:48 -0400
Re:  RE: apply-templates and excluding a node
At 11:48 AM 10/4/01, you wrote:
it is <xsl:apply-templates select="*[not(self::PRFID)]" />

What I do not undestand is why "self" why not "child"? Can anyone explain
this?

Because the predicate [not(self::PRFID)] is evaluated with respect to the node set selected by *, taking each of those nodes in turn as its context node (and returning only those that test true).


Since * has already selected children, you want to check them each on the self:: axis. If you said *[not(child::PRFID)], or the equivalent *[not(PRFID)], you'd get all element children that do not themselves have a PRFID child, as opposed to those that are not them-selves- a PRFID.

Cheers,
Wendell



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