The template that is being applied to the INFO-OBJ nodes is recursive,
because I do need to process all the INFO-OBJ nodes but I need to do it
in a certain order.  So I want to apply the template initially only to
the INFO-OBJ nodes that are not children of other INFO-OBJ nodes.
Unfortunately, the empty template for children nodes won't work for this
particular situation.  I am restricted on this project, for now at
least, to using the "old Microsoft XSL", sorry I did not specify
previously.  I am not very well versed in the world of XSL/XSLT yet.  Is
there a way to accomplish this using plain old XSL?

Thanks again, Christe

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Respess, Christe writes:
 > 
 > I just found that the statement I included in my previous message
does
 > not actually do what I need done.  It seems to be equivalent to
 > <xsl:apply-templates select="//INFO-OBJ" />.  So now my question is
how
 > to formulate a statement such as the one below so that it will return
a
 > collection of all INFO-OBJ elements that are not children of INFO-OBJ
 > elements?

process all INFO-OBJ elements, but add an empty template for the ones
with I-O parents

<xsl:apply-templates select=".//INFO-OBJ"/>
...

<xsl:template match="INFO=OBJ/INFO-OBJ"/>


sebastian


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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 09:45:05 -0000
From: Kay Michael <Michael.Kay@xxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Node selection question

The context() function is not defined in XSLT so I guess you are using
the
old Microsoft so-called-XSL? IF SO, PLEASE SAY SO!

Assuming you want an XSLT solution the answer is

<xsl:apply-templates select="//INFO-OBJ[not(parent::INFO-OBJ)]" />

or perhaps more efficiently:

<xsl:apply-templates 
		select="/descendant::*[not(self::INFO-OBJ)]/INFO-OBJ" />

Mike Kay


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