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Subject: RE: how to select elements based on their children's names?
From: "Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 10:54:38 -0000
RE:  how to select elements based on their children's n
> >   if i want to select all elements that have at least one, 
> say, "book" 
> > child element, it seems i can do it this way:
> > 
> >   //*[name(child::*) = "book"]		long way
> >   //*[name(*) = "book"]			shorter way
> > 
> > 1) is this the easiest way to do it?
> 
> "//*[book]" seems easier to me ;-)

It also has the advantage of being correct. The first two examples will
test only the name of the first child node.

XPath 2.0 and Saxon 7.4 (with backwards compatibility mode switched off)
will detect this error for you.

Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael.H.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx
work: Michael.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 


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