Re: [xsl] How to select an attribute on the current node or its anchestor

[Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 15/04/2011 07:33, Brandon Ibach wrote:
> ancestor-or-self::*[@data][1]/@data
Or if you prefer, (ancestor-or-self::*/@data)[last()]

Michael Kay
Saxonica

> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 2:06 AM, Philipp Kursawe<phil.kursawe@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > given the following xml:
> >
> > <node data="foo">
> >    <text id="1" data="bar"/>
> >    <text id="2"/>
> > </node>
> >
> > I would like to know the XPath expression to select @data which
> > results in "bar" for @id=1 and "foo" for @id=2.
> >
> > The general idea is to search for the attribute in the anchestor if
> > the current node does not contain the attribute all the way up to the
> > root node.
> >
> > Thanks for your help!
> >
> > Phil