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Re: select all elements except root
- From: David Carlisle <davidc at nag dot co dot uk>
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 16:23:09 GMT
- Subject: Re: [xsl] select all elements except root
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>
> thanks that worked..
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dion Houston [mailto:dionh@microsoft.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 10:31 AM
> To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> Subject: RE: [xsl] select all elements except root
>
>
> Well, I would think this would work:
>
> <xsl:template match="*[..]">
>
> This takes advantage of the fact that the root has no parent...
No it *[..] is the same a *. Every element in an XML document has a
parent. the parent of the top level element is the root node /.
/ has no parent, but it does not match *.
David
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