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Re: Variables and inherited attributes
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- From: T_MULLEN 58211 6th Singer St <Tom dot Mullen at reuters dot com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 11:01:44 +0000 (GMT)
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I'm new at this so apologies if this is naive but from my recent reading of
the XSLT spec I remembered this:
(excerpt from last paras of 7.6.1)
"The following precedes each procedure element with a paragraph containing
the security level of the procedure. It assumes that the security level
that applies to a procedure is determined by a security attribute on the
procedure element or on an ancestor element of the procedure. It also
assumes that if more than one such element has a security attribute then
the security level is determined by the element that is closest to the
procedure.
<xsl:template match="procedure">
<fo:block>
<xsl:value-of select="ancestor-or-self::*[@security][1]/@security"/>
</fo:block>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
"
>> the currently active value for xml:lang is
>>
>> <xsl:value-of select="ancestor-or-self::*/@xml:lang[1]"/>
>>
>Not quite; that select expression returns the set of xml:lang values on
all
>ancestor nodes (the [1] does nothing, as an element can't have two
xml:lang
>attributes), and the xsl:value-of then selects the string value of the
first
>one in document order, which is the outermost.
>
>Correct is:
>
><xsl:value-of select="(ancestor-or-self::*/@xml:lang)[last()]"/>
>
>or (perhaps marginally faster)
>
><xsl:value-of select="ancestor-or-self::*[@xml:lang][1]/@xml:lang"/>
>
>Mike Kay
>
>
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