Re: [xsl] how to get info from nodes surrounding current node?

[Joerg Heinicke <joerg dot heinicke at gmx dot de>]

john liao wrote:
> Thanks Jim. Between your response and Michael Kay's I
> managed to make it work. What you suggested was a
> pretty elegant solution, I just need to make sure that
> TABLE is addressed using ../../TABLE because my
> context node is 2 levels down from TABLE. (Kay's
> suggestion)
>
> One question: the var turned out to be needed. If I
> use ITEM[@id=@col_id]/@name I get the same name, i.e.,
> I get (col1, col1) instead of (col1, col2) as if
> @col_id gave me the same number every time the
> template matches. Why?
>
> J.L.
Hello John,

both @id and @col_id refer to ITEM, if you write it in the above way, so 
you have to use current():

ITEM[@id = current()/@col_id]

current() refers to the current context node (here D_ID). Then you don't 
need the variable.

Regards,

Joerg


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