Re: Another newbie question...

[Norman Walsh <norm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Vu Nguyen <vu@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
[...]
> how would I do that? Forexample, I have a document like this:
>   <MyDiary date="...">
>   <Text>
>     ....
>   </Text>
>   </MyDiary>
> 
>   I want to get the date attribute at any time not just when I process the
> MyDiary element... how would I do that and is it possible?? I noticed that
> when I tried this:
>   (attribute-string "DATE" MyDiary) it would be invalid... Please help..

Try (attribute-string "DATE" (ancestor "MYDIARY")) The osnl has
to be a node, so you need to pass a function that returns the
node you want to access.  (You could also find the node with an
ID, for example.)

                                        Cheers,
                                          norm
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