Re: [xsl] Somewhat Comlex XSL matching context node to an ancestor node

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2002-04-28 15:13 -0700, Derek Doerr wrote:
> What I want to do is to use XSL to create a table that
> has one row per class "team". In the first cell, show
> the team number (the team 'id').  In the second cell,
> show the names of the students in the team (e.g. "john
> doe").

You have:

> <xsl:for-each
> select="/descendant::student[@id=self::student_id']/child::name">

You have misunderstood the purpose of self:: ... you want current() which 
will give you the current() node at the beginning of the evaluation of the 
expression:

/descendant::student[@id=current()/student_id]/child::name

I'm not sure where you are going with the rest of the template, but the 
select above should give you what you are looking for.

I hope this helps.

.................... Ken


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