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RE: How to count the nodes based on attribute presence
- From: "Oleg Tkachenko" <olegt at multiconn dot com>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 15:46:22 +0200
- Subject: RE: [xsl] How to count the nodes based on attribute presence
- Reply-to: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
Hello Mailer!
> In my XML a tag is such that it can or cannot contain
> an attribute like the following:
> ------
> <Task due="true">
> <Do>Call mother</Do>
> </Task>
> <Task>
> <Do>Make a report</Do>
> </Task>
> -----
>
> I want to count the Task nodes which do not contain
> attribute due="true"
Well, let's try to translate it to xpath:
>I want to count
count(
>the Task nodes
count(//Task
> which
count(//Task[
>do not
count(//Task[not(
>contain attribute
count(//Task[not(@
>due="true"
count(//Task[not(@due='true')])
Translation has finished, the result is count(//Task[not(@due='true')])
:)
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Oleg Tkachenko,
Multiconn International, Israel
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