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Re: [xsl] XPath: ancestor:: axis vs. use of ../../../ etc.

Subject: Re: [xsl] XPath: ancestor:: axis vs. use of ../../../ etc.
From: "Lars Nyman" <larsnyman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 15:03:07 -0800
> [ I guess I thought the XPath would be more readable if
>    I showed *by name* which element had the @name attribute
>   vs. leaving it just at a long string of "../../../" ]

To make it explicit that it is a span-fill element that has/must have the
@name attribute, you can use
parent::*/parent::span-fill/@name
or
../parent::span-fill/@name

Lars



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