Re: [xsl] Referencing previous contexts in xpath/Xsl

[Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 4 January 2011 13:45, Clint Redwood <clint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Apologies if this is an obvious question, but I haven't found an answer by googling.
>
> I'm trying to construct and xpath for a select attribute in Xsl. What I have is something like this
>
> Select="x[$a/*[name=current()/@b]]"
>
> Which doesn't work as current() is referring to the context item that is the parent of x, rather than what I want which is to refer to x from within the second level []s.

Do you mean:

select="$a/*[local-name() = current()/x/@b]"

if not, post a small complete example.



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