Yes I did stumble across this, however; I didn't realize the blog was the answer to my question. The code that I have already written maintains the list of available dates, and the list of used dates. I found that I can use the xpath most widely published for drop downs, since the list of used dates is a seperate list.
For some quick testing, I created similar components to my solution, which are, master detail (main list), One repeating table for available dates, and a second for used dates. For testing I am manually populating both available, and used, dates.
To configure the pull down to get data, I set the pull down to filter data from the available dates. Then used the following filter, which filters things out that reside in field8, which is from the used date list.
not(. = xdXDocument:get-DOM()/my:myFields/my:group5/my:group6/my:field8)
This seems to function well on my test case. I will try this in my solution, the outcome seems likly to fumction as desired.
Thanks for the assistance.
Tim