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> The example I gave represents an HTML document that I've no > control over, each node is a text node and I was hoping to > get the entire text string, minus the text contained in child > node 'c'. Is it somehow possible to iterate all nodes within > a specific path and concatenate their text content? > Conditional on the node not being 'c' ? I've read about a few > of the string functions but it's a little beyond me to figure > out at the moment. In XPath 2.0 that's something like string-join((/document/a//text() except /document/a//c/text()), "") Offhand I'd say that it can't be done in XPath 1.0. But I think you're stretching XPath anyway - you should be thinking about using XSLT or XQuery. Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/
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