[thelist] [XSL] testing up the hierarchy
Jason Bauer
jbauer_23 at yahoo.com
Thu Dec 19 16:05:01 CST 2002
--- Howard Cheng <howcheng at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> I'm making site navigation from an XML document,
> which looks something like:
>
> <navigation>
> <category uid="cat_a" selected="true">
> <item uid="a" selected="true">
> <item uid="a_1" selected="true">
> <item uid="a_1_1" selected="true" />
> <item uid="a_1_2" />
> <item uid="a_1_3" />
> </item>
> <item uid="a_2" />
> <item uid="a_3" />
> </item>
> </category>
>
> What I want to do is, if I'm in any <item> test if
> the parent category's
> selected attribute is true.
Check out this website, it is a great reference for
stuff like this.
http://www.topxml.com/xsl/XPathRef.asp
I think this is what you need:
<xsl:if
test="ancestor::category/@selected='true'"></xsl:if>
I got this from the examples near the bottom of the page...
=====
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Jason Bauer
jbauer_23 at yahoo.com
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