Did you try this? <xsl:for-each select="ancestor::foo"> Thanks, Srini www.srinivasaperumal.com
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Sajan Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Try this url it is good to begin with > http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/xsl_templates.asp; > > *The disadvantage is it scans to the entire document always if we use > match = "/"* > The <xsl:template> Element > > The <xsl:template> element is used to build templates. > > The *match* attribute is used to associate a template with an XML element. > The match attribute can also be used to define a template for the entire XML > document. The value of the match attribute is an XPath expression (i.e. > match="/" defines the whole document). > > Ok, let's look at a simplified version of the XSL file from the previous > chapter: > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> > <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" > xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";> > > <xsl:template match="/"> > <html> > <body> > <h2>My CD Collection</h2> > <table border="1"> > <tr bgcolor="#9acd32"> > > <th>Title</th> > <th>Artist</th> > </tr> > <tr> > <td>.</td> > <td>.</td> > </tr> > </table> > > </body> > </html> > </xsl:template> > > </xsl:stylesheet> > > Since an XSL style sheet is an XML document itself, it always begins > with the XML declaration: *<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>*. > > The next element, *<xsl:stylesheet>*,* *defines that this document is an > XSLT style sheet document (along with the version number and XSLT namespace > attributes). > > The *<xsl:template>* element defines a template. The * match="/"*attribute > associates the template with the root of the XML source document. > > The content inside the <xsl:template> element defines some HTML to write to > the output. > > The last two lines define the end of the template and the end of the style > sheet. > > The result of the transformation above will look like this: > My CD Collection Title Artist . . > > <http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/cdcatalog.xml> > <http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/cdcatalog_with_ex1.xml> > Sajan Franco > > 2008/7/28 Matthew Holloway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hi Grant, >> >> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Focas, Grant >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Is there a way in XSLT to loop through the ancestors until I find >> > the first instance of a node called "foo"? >> > >> > For context what I'm trying to do is see if a "bookmark" is in the same >> > "section" as the link/@href (and to find this out when I'm processing >> > the link). >> >> First I've just got a few questions... you've got nested section tags >> so what if the bookmark was in the parent section? Is that the same as >> if it's in a following section? (if not then can you give a few more >> XML file examples). >> >> If the first ancestor section is all that matters then an approach >> would be to compare the generate-id()s of an ancestor section of the >> link to the ancestor section of the bookmark. So you'd do something >> like (from memory, untested code) >> >> <xsl:key name="bookmarkById" match="bookmark" use="@id"/> >> >> <xsl:template match="link"> >> <xsl:choose> >> <xsl:when test="generate-id(ancestor::section[1]) = >> generate-id(key('bookmarkById', substring(@href, >> 1)[1]/ancestor::section[1])">it's the same section</xsl:when> >> <xsl:otherwise>it's not the same section</xsl:otherwise> >> </xsl:choose> >> </xsl:template> >> >> >> >> .Matthew Holloway >> http://holloway.co.nz/ >> >> >> ******************************************************************* >> List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm >> Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm >> Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> ******************************************************************* >> >> > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ******************************************************************* > -- Thanks & Regards, Srinivas ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
