Re: [xsl] rephrased: passing parameters to generic templates

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 06:37 AM 4/12/2006, drkm wrote:
> andrew welch wrote:
>
> > <xsl:template match="a">
> >   <a href="{ancestor::para/docBase}">.....
>
>   I'm not sure, but I think the OP needs "ancestor::para[1]/...",
> doesn't it?

Not if there's only one (which seems likely). Even if there's more 
than one, when ancestor::para/docBase is turned into a string, the 
value of the first such element in document order is taken.

In XPath 2.0 you could get an error for relying on this, however, 
since in 2.0 a sequence of more than one node can't be converted into 
a string. There, you might be better off forcing it to be the first, 
as in (ancestor::para/docBase)[1].

Cheers,
Wendell



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