Re: [xml-dev] union operator and predicates in XSLT patterns

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David Carlisle <>
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"HILLMAN, Tomos" <>
Date
2011-01-24T17:26:41Z
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Re: [xml-dev] union operator and predicates in XSLT patterns
On 24/01/2011 17:06, HILLMAN, Tomos wrote:
. match="(div1|div2)[not(@role)]" (simplified).

as Ken said, the grammar for patters is more restricted, in general you 
need to pull the | to the top level or push it into a predicate so

div1[not(@role)]  |  div2[not(@role)]

or

*[self::div1 or self::div2][not(@role)]

or

*[matches(name(),'^div[0-9]+')][not(@role)]

or something

David

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