Re: Must be a better way to write this XPath expressio

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Subject: Re: Must be a better way to write this XPath expression
From: Jeff Kenton <jkenton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 11:52:55 -0400

Simon.Fairey@xxxxxx wrote:

In my XSL to get sections 'a' and 'b' I would have thought something like:

/data/stuff/(a|b)

This will be legal in XPath 2.0, but is not legal in XPath 1.0

would work but the only thing I can get to work is:

/data/stuff/a|/data/stuff/b

In XPath 1.0, the only place the union ( | ) operator is legal is at the top level, as you have discovered.

which just seems too long winded for there not to be a better way to express it.

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Jeff Kenton
DataPower Technology, Inc.

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