how to find elements that don't have ancestor

Hi.

Can someone tell me how to find all the elements of type 'table' which
have an attribute named 'source' and are not descendents of
'querybox' ?

I'm sort of wrestling with it and am hoping someone can tell me if it
is possible.

I know it is possible to find all elements that ARE descendents of
'querybox' that have a given attribute and are of a certain type.

Jeff

re: how to find elements that don't have ancestor

On Oct 10, 2:17*pm, kishjeff <jk...@us.ibm.comwrote:oh geez, I'm trying out xpath. sorry.. I forgot to mention that
insignificant item.

re: how to find elements that don't have ancestor

kishjeff a écrit :
Why not :
//table[@source and (count(ancestor::querybox) = 0)]

Cheers,

p.

re: how to find elements that don't have ancestor

On Oct 10, 4:02*pm, Peyo <o...@est.cawrote:thanks so much. that works just fine evidently. is there a way of
doing it without count, say with some sort of "not
decendent::querybox" sort of thing?

regards in any case
Jeff

re: how to find elements that don't have ancestor

kishjeff a écrit :
You did most of the work ;-)

< is there a way ofJust try not(descendant::querybox)

not() is a *function*, hence the parentheses.

XPath 2.0 also introduces some other functions like exists().

Be aware that not(descendant::querybox) it is not what you have asked :-)

Cheers,

p.b.

re: how to find elements that don't have ancestor

kishjeff wrote://table[@source and not(ancestor::querybox)]

///Peter

re: how to find elements that don't have ancestor

On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:31:08 +0100, Peter Flynn
<peter.nosp@m.silmaril.iewrote:
ah its so easy... thanks.