Re: ancestor evaluation in Jade SGML transforms (newbie query)

[Chris Maden <crism@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

[Kim Plofker]
> I'm using Jade for an SGML->SGML transformation that's supposed to
> assign an attribute to the current node based on whether _any_
> ancestor of that node has a particular value of a particular
> attribute; and I'm stumped.  I can successfully use the "ancestor"
> function to perform this test on the nearest ancestor with a
> particular GI, as follows:

Kim,

You want (inherited-attribute-string) or (inherited-element-attribute-
string).  See §10.2.4.3 of DSSSL.

-Chris
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