Re: [xsl] applying templates to ancestor nodes without reprocessing context node

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jarom,

If I understand you correctly, the error is in your XPath:

At 01:13 PM 4/10/2002, you wrote:
> <xsl:apply-templates select="node()[ancestor::l]" mode="noApps"/>

This doesn't select ancestors. Fully expanded, it is equivalent to

child::node()[ancestor::l]

or "all child nodes that have an ancestor l". (Absent an axis specifier, 
XPath assumes the child axis. The predicate acts to filter the node set: so 
your XPath does not read "nodes that are ancestor l" but rather "[child] 
nodes that *have* ancestor l" (or to be really persnickety, "[child] nodes 
for whom the expression 'ancestor::l' is true, i.e. for whom, acting as the 
context node, the set of nodes ancestor::l is not empty").

I think what you want is merely select="ancestor::l", which selects all l 
ancestors (each app should have only one).

Good luck--
Wendell


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