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RE: Ancestors
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- Subject: RE: [xsl] Ancestors
- From: "Michael Kay" <michael dot h dot kay at ntlworld dot com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 17:27:43 -0000
- Reply-To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
> If I am the current context node and I wanted to know
> if any of my ancestors had the string "region" in its name, how will
> go about that. I tried a number of combination with no success.
>
This is a bit tricky because "implicit existential quantification" applies
only to operators like "=", not to functions like contains(). In other
words, A="region" means "if any A equals 'region'", but contains(A,
"region") means "if the first A contains 'region'". But you can do it with a
predicate:
xsl:if test="ancestor::node()[contains(name(), 'region')]"
Mike Kay
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