[xsl] Checking a parent's attribute

Subject: [xsl] Checking a parent's attribute
From: Nicholas Orr <nick@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 15:51:29 +1100
G'day all,

I've got some xslt that used to do the following :

<xsl:for-each select="ExportEntries/ExportEntry/Field">

but I realised I need it to be conditional on an attribute of one of the parent nodes, so I ended up splitting it up into 3 lines instead :

<xsl:for-each select="ExportEntries">
	<xsl:if test="../Restore/@state = 'True'">
		<xsl:for-each select="ExportEntry/Field">

This works as I want, but to me it doesn't seem to be the best way. Is there a better way to do that kind of check? I want to restrict it to the "ExportEntries" node first, as there are only a limited number of times that that node will exist, and the "Restore state" node is often there for other things, so I think I'm being more efficient doing it this way. Am I doing this right?

Thanks,
Nick

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