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Mark Kaplan

Subject: Xpath and the not operator
Author: Mark Kaplan
Date: 08 Aug 2006 02:49 PM
Originally Posted: 08 Aug 2006 02:48 PM

I am trying to find a path in an xml document only having an id that satisfy two different paths. With the xml file that looks like:

<x>
<y id = 'aaa'/>
<z>
<a id = 'aaa'/>
</z>
</x>

I use the xpath statement “//*[@id='aaa']” which returns two nodes and . I want to use an xpath statement that will return but not . I think this can be done using the “not” operator but I could not figure out the correct xpath syntax. If it matters, I am using the xpath in C# code with the call SelectNodes().

Thanks for any help.

Mark

Ivan Pedruzzi

Subject: Xpath and the not operator
Author: Ivan Pedruzzi
Date: 08 Aug 2006 03:14 PM

Mark,

Your email account doesn't match any Stylus Studio registered user.
This forum is only for the Stylus Studio users community.

Ivan Pedruzzi
Stylus Studio Team
http://www.stylusstudio.com/xml_download.html

Mark Kaplan

Subject: Xpath and the not operator
Author: Mark Kaplan
Date: 08 Aug 2006 03:30 PM

Ivan,

I am a licensed user of Stylus Studio. How do I become a registered user of this forum. It is possible that I used the email address of mkaplan@phaseforward when I registered the product and not my yahoo account.

Mark

Ivan Pedruzzi

Subject: Xpath and the not operator
Author: Ivan Pedruzzi
Date: 08 Aug 2006 03:52 PM

You can match a specific node, for instance match any y with id equal to "aaa"

//y[@id='aaa']

or more selectively

/x/y[@id='aaa']

Hope this helps
Ivan Pedruzzi
Stylus Studio Team
http://www.stylusstudio.com/xml_download.html

Mark Kaplan

Subject: Xpath and the not operator
Author: Mark Kaplan
Date: 08 Aug 2006 03:58 PM

I do not know the specific node names. I only know the id value. That is why I am using //*[id='aaa']. The problem that I am having is that I want to exclude node <a> while retrieving node <y>

Thanks,
Mark

Ivan Pedruzzi

Subject: Xpath and the not operator
Author: Ivan Pedruzzi
Date: 08 Aug 2006 04:02 PM

Sorry I missed that

Try

/*[local-name() != 'a' and @id = 'aaa']

Ivan Pedruzzi
Stylus Studio Team
http://www.stylusstudio.com/xml_download.html

Mark Kaplan

Subject: Xpath and the not operator
Author: Mark Kaplan
Date: 08 Aug 2006 04:16 PM

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