Re: [xsl] XPath problem with getting all ancestors

[Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx>]

Jostein Austvik Jacobsen wrote:

> 	<xsl:template match="article">
> 		<xsl:variable name="v1">
> 			<xsl:copy-of select="content/node()"/>
> 		</xsl:variable>

So v1 now is a temporary document containg a deep copy of the child 
nodes of the content element(s). With your sample document the contents 
is then

                       <para>
                               <note id="1">text</note>
                       </para>


> 	<xsl:template match="note">
> 		The note at /article/content/para/note reads:
> 		ancestors="<xsl:value-of select="count(ancestor::*)"/>"
> 		preceding="<xsl:value-of select="count(preceding::*)"/>"
> 		contentNum="<xsl:value-of select="count(preceding::content)"/>"
> 		numberTest="<xsl:number level="any" count="content"/>"
> 	</xsl:template>

and that way the template for 'note' elements outputs

> 		The note at /article/content/para/note reads:
> 		ancestors="1"
> 		preceding="0"
> 		contentNum="0"
> 		numberTest=""

So the template is applied to a copy of the original para element.

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