XPath - Limiting Parent

[Michael Doyle]

Hi,

Using XPath, I want to get all elements FOO which are not children of
BAR.

What i have done in this instance is:
//FOO[name(..)!='BAR']

this only works when BAR is immediately below FOO, it's also kinda
ugly.
Is there a better way?

Thanks,
Micky

 

[Martin Honnen]

Using XPath, I want to get all elements FOO which are not children of
BAR.

What i have done in this instance is:
//FOO[name(..)!='BAR']

You do not need name checks, you can simply do
//FOO[not(parent::BAR)]

this only works when BAR is immediately below FOO,

That is what you want if your description above is correct: FOO elements
which are not children of BAR.
If you want FOO elements which are not descendants of BAR then you can use
//FOO[not(ancestor::BAR)]