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Subject: RE: [xsl] Must be a better way to write this XPath expression
From: "Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 17:47:47 +0100

> In my XSL to get sections 'a' and 'b' I would have thought 
> something like:
> 
> /data/stuff/(a|b)
> 
> would work but the only thing I can get to work is:
> 
> /data/stuff/a|/data/stuff/b
> 
> which just seems too long winded for there not to be a better way to 
> express it.

Which is why the former syntax is now allowed in XPath 2.0.

In 1.0 you can always use variables: ($a/a | $a/b)

Michael Kay


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