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Re: Problem with document() function
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- Subject: Re: [xsl] Problem with document() function
- From: "Gustaf Liljegren" <gustaf dot liljegren at xml dot se>
- Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 16:19:56 +0200
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From: "Michael Kay" <mhkay@iclway.co.uk>:
> Show us the contact1.xml file - perhaps you're not selecting any data!
The problem was solved by Wendell Piez, and indirectly by yourself, thanks
to the XSLT Programmer's Reference. :-)
Should have been:
<xsl:variable name="data" select="document('contact1.xml')"/>
And also:
<xsl:value-of select="$data/*//organization"/>
^
(to find nested contact info)
It works, but still I'm not sure how to read the XPath expression
"$data/*//organization". In particular, I'm not yet sure what the '*' adds
to it. Since '$data' returns the document (starting from the root node I
assume), it seems logical that only the '//' + [element name] should be able
to return the content from any element.
Regards,
Gustaf Liljegren
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