Hello,
I have a problem with an XPath. My XML-Document that i want to format
with my XSLT-stylesheet is a storylist which contains a number of
stories which contains a title and a body-element. The body element
contains an attribute called language. Here is a excerpt of my DTD:
<!ELEMENT storylist (story*) >
<!ELEMENT story (body, title) >
<!ATTLIST story
id ID #REQUIRED
xreftext CDATA #IMPLIED
author CDATA #IMPLIED
category CDATA #IMPLIED>
<!ELEMENT body (#PCDATA | xref | seealso | url)* >
<!ATTLIST body
language (en|de|es|it|jp) "de">
...
I'm using a key 'language-index' to get all messages of the same
languages:
<xsl:key name="language-index" match="body" use="@language"/>
I want to iterate through those stories after i sort the by the
author-attribute that is in the body of the story i do this inside
<xsl:template match="/">:
<xsl:for-each select="key('language-index', $targetLanguage)">
<xsl:sort select="ancestor::story/@author"/>
Now i want to print some text only if the author of the story has
changed from the preceding story.
My problem is that i don't know how to access the author-attribute of
the preceding sibling. I have tried a couple of different syntaxes but
none of them worked what i want is someting like this:
preceding-sibling::story[1]/@author
but that returns NULL.
i can access the author associate with the current body-node like this:
ancestor::story[1]/@author
thanks for help
jacques
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