xslt, for-each exclusion

[shaun]

I'd like to do a for-each over a group of attributes except one specific
one.

e.g.

given an element like:

<gluteus_maximus snow_white="pert" queen="callipygous"
dwarf="dontGoThere"/>

I want to loop over both snow white and tinkerbell but not the dwarf.

I could do:

<xsl:for-each select="@*">
<xsl:if test="not(name()='dwarf')">
<!-- do stuff here -->
</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>

but is there a cleverer way of using the for-each selection criterion to
exclude only one element?

thanks

shaun

[Steve Jorgensen]

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:40:09 +0200, shaun <sh*******@cern.ch> wrote:

I'd like to do a for-each over a group of attributes except one specific
one.

e.g.

given an element like:

<gluteus_maximus snow_white="pert" queen="callipygous"
dwarf="dontGoThere"/>

I want to loop over both snow white and tinkerbell but not the dwarf.

I could do:

<xsl:for-each select="@*">
<xsl:if test="not(name()='dwarf')">
<!-- do stuff here -->
</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>

but is there a cleverer way of using the for-each selection criterion to
exclude only one element?

thanks

shaun

I think you should just be able to move the test into the predicate...

<xsl:for-each select="@*[not(name()='dwarf']">
<!-- do stuff here -->
</xsl:for-each>