Re: Newby Question

[Bron G. <br...@ne...>]

On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 10:40:40PM -0500, Bruce Long (c) wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am trying to match all nodes with elements as parents but not the ones
> with a parent element of news_detail ...


Ouch, this is mega expensive..

> but am having trouble with avoiding the news_detail node's children. If I
> can't put the ancestor:: axes in the match pattern as Xalan says, how do I
> exclude the child nodes of the news_detail node?

What are you trying to do with the output?

One possible method would be something like

<xsl:template match="*|@*|node()">
  <xsl:copy>
     <xsl:apply-templates match="*|@*"/>
  </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="news_detail"/>  <!-- ignore news detail -->

This should copy every node except news_detail, and obviously its children.

-- 
Bron ( hope this is what you needed )