Re: Q: pattern selection for outside the context node

[Chris Maden <crism@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

(This is on-topic for xsl-list, but not xml-dev.)

[Aaron Fischer]
> Is there a pattern syntax for starting at the root

/

> or going above the context node, up into the XML tree?

..
ancestor()

E.g.:
  <xsl:apply-templates select="../title"/>
  <xsl:apply-templates select="/docinfo/author"/>
  <xsl:value-of select="ancestor(chapter)/title"/>

-Chris
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