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Re: Problems with for-each
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- Subject: Re: [xsl] Problems with for-each
- From: "Kevin Nardi" <kevnardi at hotmail dot com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 13:14:35 -0700
- Reply-To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
This is how I got around the problem...but is this the best way to do it?
It seems rather haphazard...
Thanks,
Kevin
<xsl:variable name="id">
<xsl:value-of select="identifier" />
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:for-each select="//itemList/headerList/header">
<xsl:if test="name = 'title'">
<xsl:apply-templates select="//itemList/item/title[../identifier = $id]"
/>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
>From: "Kevin Nardi" <kevnardi@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
>To: XSL-List@lists.mulberrytech.com
>Subject: [xsl] Problems with for-each
>Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 12:30:56 -0700
>
>In an XSL stylesheet, I have a template with a code fragment that looks
>like
>this:
>
><xsl:template match="item">
> <tr>
> <xsl:for-each select="//itemList/headerList/header">
> <xsl:if test="name = 'title'">
> <xsl:apply-templates select="title" />
> </xsl:if>
> </xsl:for-each>
> </tr>
></xsl:template>
>
>An <item> element looks like this:
>
><item>
> <title>Item 1</title>
> <identifier>aab</identifier>
> etc...
></item>
>
>My problem is that inside of the for-each loop, the context changes to that
>of //itemList/headerList/header, and I lose the context of the current item
>I'm working with, so the select="title" is invalid. How do I get my
>context
>back?
>
>Thanks.
>
>-Kevin
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