backtracking and trying to find a sub-node

[Robert Koberg <rob@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Could you look at the below and offer some advice on how it should be done.
Firs there is an sample of XML followed by my attempt at XSL. I have an XML
structure that looks like this:

<config>
  <section>
     <image attributes.../>
     <image attributes.../>
        <section><page/></section>
        <section>
          <page/>
          <section>
            <page/>
            <section><page/></section>
          </section>
        </section>
  </section>

  <section>
     <image attributes.../>
     <image attributes.../>
        <section><page/></section>
        <section>
          <page/>
          <section>
            <page/>
            <section><page/></section>
          </section>
        </section>
  </section>
</config>

The Problem: I need to access the images at the 1st section no matter which
sub-section I am in.  In other words the images at the top level need to
cascade down through the other sections. This is what I have been trying:

<xsl:variable name="images" select="ancestor::section//image"/>
   <xsl:variable name="image.hd1" select="$images[@role='hd1']"/>
   <xsl:variable name="image.hd2" select="$images[@role='hd2']"/>

   &lt;image src="<xsl:value-of select="$image.hd1/@fileref"/>"
width="<xsl:value-of select="$image.hd1/@width"/>" height="<xsl:value-of
select="$image.hd1/@height"/>" /&gt;

  &lt;image src="<xsl:value-of select="$image.hd2/@fileref"/>"
width="<xsl:value-of select="$image.hd2/@width"/>" height="<xsl:value-of
select="$image.hd2/@height"/>" /&gt;
</xsl:template>

tia, Rob


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