Question

My first post here – it’s a great site and I will certainly do my best to give back as much as I can.

I have seen different manifestations of this following question; however my attempts to resolve don’t appear to work.

Consider this simple tree:

<root>
    <div>
        <p>hello</p>
        <p>hello2</p>
        <p><span class="bad">hello3</span></p>
    </div>
</root>

I would like to come up with an XPath expression that will select all child nodes of “div”, except for elements that have their “class” attribute equal to “bad”.

Here is what I have tried:

/root/div/node()[not (@class='bad')]

… However this doesn’t seem to work.

What am I missing here?

Cheers,
Isaac