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RE: how to access the main document from a node-set context?
- From: "Chris Bayes" <chris at bayes dot co dot uk>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 03:17:38 -0000
- Subject: RE: [xsl] how to access the main document from a node-set context?
- Reply-to: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
Put <xsl:variable name="root" select="/" /> at the top of your
stylesheet and then refer to the original document with $root/someXpath
Ciao Chris
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> From: owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com] On Behalf Of
> Gunther Schadow
> Sent: 23 December 2001 02:34
> To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> Subject: [xsl] how to access the main document from a
> node-set context?
>
>
> Hi, I have run into another problem with my dependency
> sorting. Basically what I'm doing is take elements from a
> document and rearrange them into a result tree fragment. Then
> I run the node-set funtion on them to get a useful new tree
> in which I can do Xpath access. Now, I have several links in
> my generated tree that point into the main document, but when
> I try to follow them (with key or simple xpath search) I can
> never access that original document because my context is
> this generated node-set. How can I reach back to the original
> document?
>
> thanks for the hint,
> -Gunther
>
>
> --
> Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D.
> gschadow@regenstrief.org
> Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for
> Health Care
> Adjunct Assistant Professor Indiana University School
> of Medicine
> tel:1(317)630-7960
> http://aurora.regenstrief.org
>
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