Re: [xsl] Stumped on XPath

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Spencer,

At 04:27 PM 2/13/2006, you wrote:
> Ok, I seem to have got it. I changed the key to read <xsl:key name="r"
> match="appendix" use="refnote/@id"/>... After testing 5 or 6 test
> scenarios it's giving me exactly what I want. Thank you both so much
> for the help.

That works -- retrieve the appendix itself, not the refnote, and get 
the number for that.

But the key will also work as you had it, retrieving the refnote, if your code

<xsl:for-each select="key('r',@ref)">
  <xsl:text> (see Appendix </xsl:text>
  <xsl:number format="A"/>
<xsl:text>) </xsl:text>

simple said <xsl:number format="A" from="appendix"/>. In that case, 
rather than traversing to the appendix containing a refnote (using 
the @id values of the refnotes inside each appendix to get it, as 
your key declares), you'd traverse to the refnotes and then just 
generate a number reflecting its appendix.

In that case you might actually have to say count="appendix" as well 
as from="appendix" (the memory blurs), so maybe it's good that you 
fell into the other solution.

Cheers,
Wendell


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