[xsl] Parent of context node

[Chris Loschen <loschen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, all!

I'm sure I'm missing something obvious, but I'm staring at this and can't 
see why it isn't working.

I have XML like this:

<e eid="e19"><hg><hw>a</hw><hom>1</hom> <vg><var>an</var> before a vowel 
sound</vg><infg><inf>a</inf><inf>an</inf></infg></hg><sg><se1><pos>determiner</pos> 
<b>1.</b> used when mentioning someone or something for the first time; the 
indefinite article. <b>2.</b> one single: <i>a hundred.</i> <b>3.</b> 
someone like (the name specified). <b>4.</b> per: <i>typing 60 words a 
minute.</i></se1> <etym>Old English.</etym></sg></e>

The template in question looks like this:

<xsl:template match="etym">
        <xsl:choose>
                <xsl:when test="../sg">
                        <br /><span 
class="etym">ORIGIN:</span>&#xA0;<xsl:apply-templates />
                </xsl:when>
                <xsl:otherwise>
                        <tei-ms:etym>
                                <xsl:text>[</xsl:text>
                                <xsl:apply-templates />
                                <xsl:text>] </xsl:text>
                        </tei-ms:etym>
                </xsl:otherwise>
        </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

I want the "Old English" from the XML to trigger the first condition 
because its immediate parent is <sg> -- I
have other cases where <etym> is further down in the hierarchy, and for 
those, I want the square brackets
instead. But every time I'm getting the square brackets (the "otherwise" 
condition) instead. Am I wrong that
"../sg" should be true if the immediate parent of the context node is <sg>? 
What am I missing?

Thanks!


--Chris

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