Re: [xsl] Getting variable yet most immediate parentNode

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Abel (switching threads again),

At 08:00 PM 9/27/2007, you wrote:
> Wendell, considering the possible intent of Steve to wrap all output 
> inside one <div>, it is probably better if he does go back to using 
> the // syntax, but not in the way I proposed, but more like this 
> (assuming that the match="option" was a mistake from Steve, it 
> doesn't even have an @name, I replace it here with "section"):
>
> <xsl:template match="section">
>   <div>
>      <span class="two"><label>
>           <xsl:value-of select="(@name | .)[1]" />      <!-- xslt 
> 1.0 syntax now -->
>       </label></span>
>       <xsl:apply-template select=".//answers" />

Well if you wish to humor your aversion to "//" you could always write:

<xsl:apply-templates select="descendant::answers"/>

... which would arguably be clearer, too. (This is unlikely to make 
any performance difference though.)

Cheers,
Wendell


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