Re: [xsl] Getting attribute from rootnode...?

[Jörg Heinicke <joerg.heinicke@xxxxxx>]

'//' is never the best solution - you said already why it is so.

'/@rootattr' won't work, because '/' has never attributes.

There is a difference between the root and the root-element. What you want 
is '/*/@rootattr'.

Regards,

Joerg


Ragulf Pickaxe wrote:

> Hello again guru's
>
> I have a stylesheet that must have a value that is placed as an 
> attribute in the topmost (root) element. The name of this, the topmost 
> element, is not known because the stylesheet is used for different 
> documents.
>
> This value I want in a global variable. Currently I use this code:
> <xsl:variable name="foo" select"//@RootAttributeValue"/>
>
> Is this the best sollution? It seems that this will check every node for 
> the attribute, while I know that it is in the rootnode.
>
> I tried
> <xsl:variable name="foo" select"/@RootAttributeValue"/>
> but this doesn't work (it doesn't get any value). Why doesn't this work?
>
> How do I on toplevel select the rootnode when I don't know it's name?
>
> Hope you can help me...
> Ragulf Pickaxe :)


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