Re: Parent Node...

[Vivek Agrawala <vivek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Vu Nguyen wrote:
> 
>   Hi,
>      I have a question on how to access the parent's attributes of a
> certain element when doing the SGML translating?? I want ..some how.. save
> the attributes of a element and then later when I reach its children, I
> could perform some test on it... I was struggled to find this out.. please
> help!!

In general, when using DSSSL, you avoid 'storing' values. DSSSL is
side-effect
free, so 'storing' variables is not possible. You can use user-defined
characterstics in some situations.

However, in this particular case, you can just navigate to the parent
when you need to access its attributes.

-- Vivek Agrawala, Ph.D.
Siemens Corporate Research, Inc.	email: vivek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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