Re: [xsl] Table of contents - for-each question

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:44 PM 1/24/2006, Lynn wrote:
> Got a response back from an EAD listserv that worked like a charm.

That figures. It has to be a fairly common problem in EAD documents 
using c0x elements.

> Since we're already inside a for-each loop, which mean that the current
> context must be either head, c01[@level='series'], or c02
> [@level='subseries'] ...
> I'd suggest you try replacing:
>
> <xsl:value-of select='head | c01
> [@level="series"]/did/unittitle | c02 [@level="subseries"]/did/unittitle'/>
>
> with:
>
> <xsl:choose>
>   <xsl:when test="name() = 'head'">
>     <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>   </xsl:when>
>   <xsl:otherwise>
>     <xsl:value-of select="did/unittitle"/>
>   </xsl:otherwise>
> </xsl:choose>

This could simply be:

<xsl:value-of select="self::head | did/unittitle"/>

Avoiding the name() test (which would be leaner and nicer as 
test="self::head" in any case).

Cheers,
Wendell



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