Re: [xsl] Parent of context node

["J.Pietschmann" <j3322ptm@xxxxxxxx>]

Chris Loschen wrote:

> 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:
> sound</vg><infg><inf>a</inf><inf>an</inf></infg></hg><sg>
>... <etym>Old English.</etym></sg></e>
> The template in question looks like this:
>
> <xsl:template match="etym">
>         <xsl:choose>
>                 <xsl:when test="../sg">
...
> I want the "Old English" from the XML to trigger the first condition 
> because its immediate parent is <sg>

Your condition is true if the parent has another *child* element <sg>.
If you want to test whether the parent *is* a <sg> use
 test="parent::sg"

J.Pietschmann



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