Re: [xsl] ancestors property?

[Oleg Tkachenko <olegt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael wrote:
> If I have something like this:
>
> <outside myprop='123'>
>   <mid>
>     <inside>456</inside>
>   </mid>
> </outside>
>
>
> How would I write my match for my <xsl:template> for the <inside> node so
> that that template would only match if outside's myprop was equal to '123'
> (and another template might match only '234' for example. I want there to
> be any number of nested levels between the <outside> and <inside> tags. I
> tried using ancestor() but I must have messed something up because it said
> ancestor didn't exist.

<xsl:template match="outside[@myprop='123']//inside">
or
<xsl:template match="inside[ancestor::outside[@myprop='123']]">

PS. And ancestor() reminds me something ancient :)
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Oleg Tkachenko
eXperanto team
Multiconn Technologies, Israel


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