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Subject: Re: some XPath please ?
From: Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:20:53 +0100

The != operator compares the values (content) of nodes, not their identity or their name.

You could use //tag2[not(parent::tag1)]

or //*[not(self::tag1)]/tag2

Michael Kay
Saxonica

On 23/06/2010 07:51, Fabien Tillier wrote:

Hi List.
Suppose I get a (simple) XML
<xml>
<tag1>
  <tag2>
   <tag3/>
   <tag3/>
  </tag2>
  <tag2>
   <tag3/>
   <tag3/>
   <tag3/>
  </tag2>
</tag1>
<tag2>
  <tag3/>
  <tag3/>
</tag2>
<tag2>
  <tag3/>
  <tag3/>
  <tag3/>
</tag2>
</xml>

What if I want to select all tag2 elements that did not have a tag1
above ?
I have tried

"//tag2[parent::node!=3D'tag1']/*"

But it gets all ...

And

"//tag2[parent::node!=3Dtag1]/*"

Gets nothing

(and I would prefer not using the higher level nodes like /xml/tag2
against /xml/tag1/tag2)

Thanks in advance !
Regards,
Fabien

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RE: some XPath please ?, (continued) Fabien Tillier - 23 Jun 2010 07:02:52 -0000 Sheila Ellen Thomson - 23 Jun 2010 07:29:02 -0000 Andrew Welch - 23 Jun 2010 07:12:41 -0000 Fabien Tillier - 23 Jun 2010 07:19:02 -0000 Michael Kay - 23 Jun 2010 08:21:24 -0000 <= Fabien Tillier - 23 Jun 2010 08:45:08 -0000

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