Re: [xsl] Getting value of specific element in external XML document

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sir Pickaxe,

What you want is not

  ancestor-or-self::node

but rather

  ancestor-or-self::node()

You are presently asking for element nodes named node. Apparently you have 
none of those. An easy error, but hard to catch.

Cheers,
Wendell

At 06:38 PM 4/22/2004, you wrote:
> During a transformation, I want different Colours on some elemets 
> according to their position in the hierachy. Instead of a choose-when, I 
> have tried following:
>
> <!-- Top of XSL document -->
> <xsl:variable name="Colours" select="document('Colours.xml')/colours/colour"/>
>
> <xsl:template match="/">
>  <xsl:copy-of select="$Colours"/> <!-- Gives back the whole -->
>  <xsl:value-of select="$Colours[2]"/> <!-- Gives back the value of the 
> second colour element -->
>  <xsl:apply-templates select="node"/>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match="node">
>  <xsl:value-of select="$Colours[count(ancestor-or-self::node)]"/> <!-- 
> Gives nothing at all -->
>  <xsl:apply-template select="node"/>
> </xsl:template>
>
> In the template node, I have tried various things in the predicate, such 
> as [position()=count(ansestor-or-self::node)] and the like, but nothing 
> seems to work, except when I hardcode the value, which I obviously do not want.
>
> What am I doing wrong here? I have absolutely no idea why this is not working.



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