Re: [xsl] Retrieving top-level attribute value in XSLT 2.0

["Bob Portnell" <simply.bobp@xxxxxxxxx>]

Apologies to Joe for misreading/mistyping his eminently correct
advice. And thank-you to David for clarifying what had only been
glimmering at the periphery of my awareness.

Now all I have to do is parse that dateTime into the shape and pieces
I want for the presentation end. And I'm going to have to do it many
times, so I expect I'm headed toward writing my first function. Whee.

I'll probably be back...

Bob P
simply.bobp@xxxxxxxxx

On 8/31/06, David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Okay, I've now tried that. There is no change: the date is not sent
> > into my output document.
>
> what exactly did you try? the advice was correct
>
> /*/@from
>
> or adding
> xmlns:t='urn:TMSWebServices' to your xsl:stylesheet  and using
> /t:xtvt/@from
> should both work.
>
> I suspect that you confused yourself by calling
> (this is the root element of the file...):
>              ^^^^^^^^
> the top level elemnt the root element, although that terminoligy is
> sometimes used, it's best not to use it in xslt/xpath as xpath (1) a
> root node is always the _parent_ of the top level element, not the
> element itself. So there is never a "root element".
>
> David