Re: [xsl] XSL(check attribute exists in the parent node and get value for another attribute in the same node)

[David Mitchell <dmitchell4@xxxxxxxxx>]

Not sure from your example, but do you mean:

<xsl:if test="$entry/ancestor::tgroup/spanspec[@spanname=$sn]/@align">

(I took the slash out between spanspec and the [predicate]).

--David Mitchell

> <spanspec namest="c3" nameend="c5" spanname="35"
> align="right"></spanspec>
>
> above is the ancestor node. I want to check whether
> the ALIGN attribute exists based on the attribute
> SPANNAME value in the SPANSPEC. I tried using the
> following way, but it doesn't work. 
>
> <xsl:if
> test="$entry/ancestor::tgroup/spanspec/[@spanname=$sn]/@align">
> .....
> </xsl:if>



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