Question

I’m trying to find all the tables below my current node without also including the nested tables. In other words, if I have this, i want to find “yes” and not “no”:

<table> <!-- outer table - no -->
  <tr><td>
    <div> <!-- *** context node *** -->
      <table> <!-- yes -->
        <tr><td>
          <table> ... </table> <!-- no -->
        </td></tr>
      </table>
      <table> <!-- yes -->
        <tr><td>
          <table> ... </table> <!-- no -->
        </td></tr>
      </table>
    </div>
  </td></tr>
</table>

Is there any easy way to do this in XPath 1.0? (In 2.0, it’d be .//table except .//table//table, but I don’t have a 2.0 as an option.)

EDIT: please, the answers so far are not respecting the idea of current context node. I don’t know how far down the first layer of table might be (and it might differ), and I also don’t know if I might be inside another table (or two or three).

Literally, I want what .//table except .//table//table in XPath 2.0 would be, but I have only XPath 1.

Answer 1

After investigating it here and elsewhere, the answer seems to be “you can’t, and that’s why we have XPath 2.0”. Oh well.