Re: [xsl] how to xpath the *value* of an attribute based on value of other attribute in same element

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2009-07-01 14:13 -0400, you wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:47 PM, G. Ken
> Holman<gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > That isn't XML because it isn't well-formed due to the absence of the
> > namespace declaration for "xtf".
>
> I thought to spare you the full 20 mb file and give you just the
> relevant bits. May the xml gods forgive me.

:{)}

But I was actually trying to be helpful with that comment ... if 
error messages had been suppressed and you were getting an empty 
result it could have been because your test wasn't working at all.

> It turns out a
> different bug in my working code prevented me from getting the value
> to display, and between the one and the other I had concluded my xpath
> was bad. But now it's all good.

Good to hear.  This is not an uncommon situation at all and your 
experience is a good reminder to stylesheet writers to check other 
issues when something that seems obvious appears not to work.

. . . . . . . . . . Ken

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