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Dimitre, On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Glad we agree on this. In XSLT 2.0 one can have exactly the same kind > of question with the only minor difference that it is about a sequence > of items. > > Therefore, the fact that people are proposing more general solutions, > doesn't mean they have forgotten about the XPath 2.0 "except" > operator. Indeed it does not! I can plead only that my original claim, "no one ever remembers 'except'", was something of a Cretan paradox, since evidently someone did. :-> Cheers, Wendell > > Cheers, > Dimitre > > On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Dimitre, >> >> >> >> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> extent except (extent[1],extent[last()]) >>>> >>>> I know, not so funny. Or memorable, since apparently no one ever >>>> remembers 'except'. :-) >>> >>> Except that this is only defined for sequences of nodes, while the >>> other answers would also operate on arbitrary sequences. >> >> True. IIRC the OP stipulated the problem using EAD 'extent' elements, >> not in the general case. :-) >> >>> Another potential issue: doesn't "except" cause deduplication? >> >> It will, and it will also sort nodes into document order; again here >> that's not a problem. >> >> Cheers, Wendell >> >> Wendell Piez | http://www.wendellpiez.com >> XML | XSLT | electronic publishing >> Eat Your Vegetables >> _____oo_________o_o___ooooo____ooooooo_^ >> > > > > -- > Cheers, > Dimitre Novatchev > --------------------------------------- > Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence. > --------------------------------------- > To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk > ------------------------------------- > Never fight an inanimate object > ------------------------------------- > To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the > biggest mistake of all > ------------------------------------ > Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. > ------------------------------------- > You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what > you're doing is work or play > ------------------------------------- > To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep. > ------------------------------------- > Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. > ------------------------------------- > Typing monkeys will write all Shakespeare's works in 200yrs.Will they > write all patents, too? :) > ------------------------------------- > I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
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