No, never thought of ** instead of *. Also not in my printout of the manual, but that might be fairly outdated. Thanks.
By the way, did you see my post on \xmllastatt from yesterday? > On 12 Sep 2018, at 13:23, Hans Hagen <j.ha...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > > On 9/12/2018 1:03 PM, Hans van der Meer wrote: >> There is a difference of behaviour in \xmlfilter between >> (1) \xmlfilter{#1}{node/command(xmlsetup)} and >> (2) \xmlfilter{#1}{*/command(xmlsetup)} >> (3) \xmlfilter{#1}{*/*/command(xmlsetup)} >> In case (1) the lpath ‘node’ results in processing of the <wildcard> nodes >> in all child nodes. >> In case (2) and (3) no more than the corresponding level is searched. >> Thus there is a difference in behaviour between node and * as an lpath. >> Very unfortunate for me, because I need to process all nodes regardless of >> theeir node name, but selected on the basis of an attribute: >> \xmlfilter{#1}{*[@attribute==“yes”]. >> The difference in behaviour makes this impossible, because a general >> proceudre is impossible and doing a search with * and */* and */*/* etc. >> always will be one level too short, I expect. >> Is this intended behaviour, and if so, is there a general solution? > > did you try ** > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE > Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands > tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl > ----------------------------------------------------------------- dr. Hans van der Meer
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