My bad.

Thanks for the correction.

Jay Bryant
Bryant Communication Services
(presently consulting at Synergistic Solution Technologies).



"Aron Bock" <aronbock@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
05/19/2005 06:58 AM
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Riiiight!  Right-o.  It tests for *child* br!  Thank you.  I shoulda 
thought 
through that more ... and I will read up on this business one of these, 
uh, 
days.

--A

>From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
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>To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re:  XPath query syntax
>Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 10:05:11 +0100
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> > That *is* the better syntax, but it didn't work for me (under xalan),
>
>It worked, it just didn't select what you expected.
>
>select="/textarea/node()[not(br)]"
>
>br selects child br nodes so node()[not(br)] selects nodes that don't
>have a br child nodes, which is all nodes in your example.
>You could use /textarea/node()[not(self::br)] but its simpler just to use
>/textarea/text()
>
>
>David
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