Re: [Q] Possible to select all attributes except some?

Jeni Tennison <[email protected]> Sat, 22 Nov 2003 17:36:25 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.text.xml.xpath.general
Organization	Jeni Tennison Consulting Ltd
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi Steinar,

XSLT/XPath questions (as opposed to comments on the XSLT/XPath
specifications) are best addressed to [email protected].

> Is it possible to replace "@*" with an expression that would select
> all attributes except the attribute named "background"[3][4]?

In XPath 1.0, use:

  @*[name() != 'background']

(select every attribute whose name is not 'background').

In XPath 2.0, use:

  @* except @background

(select every attribute except the background attribute).

Cheers,

Jeni

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