RE: XPath Assistance

XSLT Programmer's Reference by Michael Kay
(I know you asked for a website, but...)
I have no connection to the book or author except as a satisfied book owner.
Get it while you still can.  Those predicates are well covered in that book.

Some of the predicates you listed below are described in NodeSetFunctionCall,
but puzzling this out from the W3C specification is not my idea of the easiest
way to learn it.

http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WD-xslt-19990421#NT-NodeSetFunctionCall

Randy Oxentenko


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[mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Scott Purcell
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 3:44 PM
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Subject:  XPath Assistance


Hello,
I am going through  the 'Java and XSLT' book and I ran into a chapter about
Xpath:

I have been seeing a lot fo examples that use what I believe are predicates:

eg:
    <xsl:apply-templates
select="presidents/president/name[child::first='John']"/>
	    <xsl:apply-templates select="presidents/president[count(vicePresident) =
0]/name"/>
           <xsl:apply-templates select="presidents/president[position() =
3]/name"/>

etc.

I thought I would be smart to figure out what predicates are available and
surfed over to the w3.org web site. Then went to link 6.2 Expressions:
http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WD-xslt-19990421#NT-Predicate

But I do not see any of  the above predicates?

I would like to know what I can use there, but do not understand possibly all
the different ones:

Also, in the above example: child::first='John'
How could I find John if the name was lower case john?
Eg: I would like to find John or john or JOHN or JOhn.

If there is a better site to refer to please include:

Sincerely
Scott

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