Re: [xsl] looking for an attribute

[Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Aaron,

You'll need to add (and know) what the context node is. Suppose the 
following (expecting "navigation" to be your root node):

>>>> Example of root node, root node is "above" the root node of your 
xml doc.
<xsl:template match="/">
      <xsl:if test="navigation/focusedTab[@name = 'Login']" >
         ....
      </xsl:if>
</xsl:template>


>>>> Example of named template. Here the context node is still the root 
node:
<xsl:template match="/">
      <xsl:call-template name="scripts" />
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="scripts">
      <xsl:if test="navigation/focusedTab[@name = 'Login']" >
         ....
      </xsl:if>
</xsl:template>

>>>> Example of normal template. Here the context node is "navigation":
<xsl:template match="/">
      <xsl:apply-template select="navigation"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="navigation">
      <xsl:if test="focusedTab[@name = 'Login']" >
         ....
      </xsl:if>
</xsl:template>

In short: once you know "where you are" in the document parse tree, or 
in other words: are aware of the context node, you can find how your 
XPath expression should be like.

Good luck!

Cheers,
Abel Braaksma
http://abelleba.metacarpus.com



Aaron Johnson wrote:
> Appologies if this is a repeated request...
>
> I have some xml...
>
> <navigation>
>         <focusedTab unremovable="true" immutable="true" ID="50" 
> name="Login"/>
>         <inactiveTab unremovable="true" immutable="true" ID="38" 
> name="Home"/>
> </navigation>
>
> I would like to test if the focused tab has an attribute of "login" so
> as to impliment a choose statement...
>
> <xsl:template name="scripts">
>     <xsl:choose>
>         <xsl:when test="?????'"> etc etc....
>
> I thought it would be <xsl:when test="focusedTab[@name='Login']"> but
> it won't work.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Aaron