Re: [xsl] XSL/XPath to generate a list of ancestors?

Subject: Re: [xsl] XSL/XPath to generate a list of ancestors?
From: Nathan Potter <ndp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 10:11:13 -0700
On May 12, 2008, at 10:05 AM, Martin Honnen wrote:

Nathan Potter wrote:

I tried this:
     <xsl:template match="*" name="fullNameWorker" mode="fullName">
        <xsl:if test="generate-id(.)!=generate-id(/)">

You have a template for element nodes (match="*") so why do you test generate-id(.) != generate-id(/) ? An element (.) is never a root node (/).


Because the template recursively ascends the document I need to test that I have arrived at the top.






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