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XSLT Select nodes without text-node children whose names starts with specifix text

Question on XSL expression

Got this XML:

<Body>
 <Page>
  <Line no="9" detail="true">
   <onefield>onefieldstext</onefield>
   <twofield>twofieldstext</twofield>
  </Line>
  <Line no="10" detail="true">
   <onefield>onefieldstext</onefield>
   <fgman9>fgmanfieldstext</fgman9>
   <twofield>twofieldstext</twofield>
  </Line>
  <Line no="11" detail="true">
   <onefield>onefieldstext</onefield>
   <twofield>twofieldstext</twofield>
  </Line>
  <Line no="12" detail="true">
   <onefield>onefieldstext</onefield>
   <twofield>twofieldstext</twofield>
  </Line>
  <Line no="13" detail="true">
   <onefield>onefieldstext</onefield>
   <fgman5>fgmanfieldstext</fgman5>
   <twofield>twofieldstext</twofield>
  </Line>
  <Line no="14" detail="true">
   <onefield>onefieldstext</onefield>
   <twofield>twofieldstext</twofield>
  </Line>
 </Page>
</Body>

I would select the <Line/> nodes without text-node children whose names
is starting with "fgman" - in this example it is all <Line/> _except_
<fgman9/> and <fgman5/> in <Line/> with @no of 10 and 13.

I know that this works:

<xsl:for-each select="Body/Page/Line[@detail]">

<xsl:if test="count(fgman9|fgman5) = 0">
L<xsl:value-of select="@no"/>:<xsl:value-of select="onefield"/>
</xsl:if>

<xsl:if test="fgman9">
<xsl:value-of select="@no"/> Ouuch</xsl:if>

<xsl:if test="fgman5">
<xsl:value-of select="@no"/> Whoops</xsl:if>

</xsl:foreach>

But as the <fgmanXXX/> nodes could be named fgman0 to fgman1000 I would
prefer not to list everyone as arguments to the count() expression.

/Reiche
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Michael Reiche wrote:

> I know that this works:
> 
> <xsl:for-each select="Body/Page/Line[@detail]">
> 
> <xsl:if test="count(fgman9|fgman5) = 0">
> L<xsl:value-of select="@no"/>:<xsl:value-of select="onefield"/>
> </xsl:if>
> 
> <xsl:if test="fgman9">
> <xsl:value-of select="@no"/> Ouuch</xsl:if>
> 
> <xsl:if test="fgman5">
> <xsl:value-of select="@no"/> Whoops</xsl:if>
> 
> </xsl:foreach>
>

within a xsl:choose instruction you could filter out all elements having 
unwanted children using starts-with(), eg:

   <xsl:choose>
     <xsl:when test="*[starts-with(name(),'fgman')]" />
     <xsl:otherwise>
       L<xsl:value-of select="@no"/>:<xsl:value-of select="onefield"/>
     </xsl:otherwise>
   </xsl:choose>

markus
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mspath (6)
2/5/2004 12:35:55 AM 
"Michael Reiche" <reicheREMOVE@THISimage.dk> wrote in message
news:pan.2004.02.04.19.56.54.883621@THISimage.dk...
> Question on XSL expression
>
> Got this XML:
>
> <Body>
>  <Page>
>   <Line no="9" detail="true">
>    <onefield>onefieldstext</onefield>
>    <twofield>twofieldstext</twofield>
>   </Line>
>   <Line no="10" detail="true">
>    <onefield>onefieldstext</onefield>
>    <fgman9>fgmanfieldstext</fgman9>
>    <twofield>twofieldstext</twofield>
>   </Line>
>   <Line no="11" detail="true">
>    <onefield>onefieldstext</onefield>
>    <twofield>twofieldstext</twofield>
>   </Line>
>   <Line no="12" detail="true">
>    <onefield>onefieldstext</onefield>
>    <twofield>twofieldstext</twofield>
>   </Line>
>   <Line no="13" detail="true">
>    <onefield>onefieldstext</onefield>
>    <fgman5>fgmanfieldstext</fgman5>
>    <twofield>twofieldstext</twofield>
>   </Line>
>   <Line no="14" detail="true">
>    <onefield>onefieldstext</onefield>
>    <twofield>twofieldstext</twofield>
>   </Line>
>  </Page>
> </Body>
>
> I would select the <Line/> nodes without text-node children whose names

A text node does not have a name -- probably you mean "whose parent's name"
..

> is starting with "fgman" - in this example it is all <Line/> _except_
> <fgman9/> and <fgman5/> in <Line/> with @no of 10 and 13.


Use:

  /*/*/Line[not(*[starts-with(name(), 'fgman')])] [text()]


Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev [XML MVP],
FXSL developer, XML Insider,

http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL
Resume: http://fxsl.sf.net/DNovatchev/Resume/Res.html
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dnovatchev (267)
2/5/2004 5:40:45 AM 
On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 06:40:45 +0100, Dimitre Novatchev [MVP] wrote:

> 
> 
> A text node does not have a name -- probably you mean "whose parent's name"
> .

Exactly!!!

> 
> 
> Use:
> 
>   /*/*/Line[not(*[starts-with(name(), 'fgman')])] [text()]
> 
> 

Well actually I found:

<xsl:if test="not(*[starts-with(name(), 'fgman')])">

to suit my needs.

> Cheers,
> 
> Dimitre Novatchev [XML MVP],
> FXSL developer, XML Insider,
> 
> http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL
> Resume: http://fxsl.sf.net/DNovatchev/Resume/Res.html

Thank you Dimitre.

Regards,
Michael Reiche
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reicheREMOVE (2)
2/5/2004 10:40:05 PM
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