[xquery-talk] Find All Nodes Between Root Node and Descendant Nodes of Some Type

[G. Ken Holman]

At 2015-07-19 10:12 -0500, Eliot Kimber wrote:
>That seems to easy Ken.
>...
>On 7/19/15, 10:09 AM, "G. Ken Holman" <talk-bounces at x-query.com on behalf
>of gkholman at cranesoftwrights.com> wrote:
>...
> >   $a1//b except $a1//a//b

Perhaps, but you were the one that put that expression in words and I 
just transliterated it:

>At 2015-07-19 06:33 -0500, Eliot Kimber wrote:
>I want to find all the <b> elements descending from <a id="a1"> but not
>within nested <a> elements

I see others have commented on the performance of this.  I think the 
maintenance of what I've written is easier than trying to grok the 
application of the ancestor axis.

. . . . . . . Ken


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