Hi,

Here is an XPath 1.0 expression that does something other than what
was requested (return all element declarations of type string):

//xs:element[@type= concat(substring-before(name(),'element'),'string')]

(where 'xs' indicates "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema")

(I design solutions for a living. I think up hacks for fun.)

Cheers, Wendell

On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 2:28 PM, Michael Kay mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> I believe that in its most general form this problem doesn't have a
>> pure XPath 1.0 solution (though it is easy if we are allowed to use
>> XSLT 1.0).
>>
>> We either need the feature of range variables, or the feature of being
>> able to specify a function call as the last location step in a path
>> expression.
>>
>
> I came to the same conclusion, though Ibm always reluctant to say that
somethingbs impossible. Essentially you need to examine the namespace nodes
to map the prefix to a URI, and that involves a join, and joins are restricted
in XPath 1.0 by the absence of range variables - XPath 1.0 is not
brelationally completeb in Coddbs sense.
>
> Michael Kay
> Saxonica
>



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