hi ,

i am slightly new to xsl and i 'm having a difficult time understanding the following problem. the relevant part of my xml is like this:
....
<book>
  <removed>y</removed>
  <author >asds</author>
<title>ccc</title>
.....
</book>

i have a xsl which has something like
<xsl:template name="Outputields">
        <xsl:param name="nodes"/>

<xsl:for-each select="$nodes">
        <xsl:if test="descendant::*[name()!='removed']" >


blah ...blah..

</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
.......

where $nodes is a variable that gets the value book/* passed to it.

my problem is i get the removed element also in my output.
how does that happen?? any help pls????

Namz

I suspect you haven't shown us enough of your code.

Your test is pretty odd, though. If $nodes consists of the children of <book>, then it contains the three elements <removed>, <author>, and <title>. None of these have a descendant element; therefore none of them have a descendant element whose name is not "removed"; therefore none of them satisfy the test in your xsl:if.

If you're trying to process all the $nodes except the <removed> element, the way to do that is

xsl:for-each select="$nodes[not(self::removed)]"



Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

hi..
thx for the reply.
what i want to do is if there is a removed element as a child in book none of the other child elements should be in the output.

to give the other part of the code..
<xsl:template name="Outputields">
        <xsl:param name="nodes"/>

<xsl:for-each select="$nodes">
        <xsl:if test="descendant::*[name()!='removed']" >


<tr>
<td bgcolor="#EEEEEE">
<span class="column">
                                    <xsl:value-of select="name()"/>

    </span>
</td>
</tr>

</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>

.

Namz

the xml has two decendent nodes in removed..

<removed>
<from></from>
<to></to>
</removed>

>What i want to do is if there is a removed element as a child in book none of the other child elements should be in the output.

That sounds like

<xsl:choose>
  <xsl:when test="$nodes[self::removed]">
    ... there is a "removed" element. Process it... (or do nothing?)
  </xsl:when>
  <xsl:otherwise>
    <xsl:for-each select="$nodes">
      .. there is no "removed" element, so process all the nodes ...
    </xsl:for-each>
  </xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>

I don't see where you got the idea of using the descendant axis: you seem to have some misunderstanding of basic concepts, and spending some time with a good book or tutorial would probably help.



Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference