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Re: Traversing Problem (XPath)

  • To: "Roberts, Kenneth W." <KENNETH.W.ROBERTS@s...>, xml-dev@l...
  • Subject: Re: Traversing Problem (XPath)
  • From: Richard Lainchbury <freexe@g...>
  • Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 14:34:54 +0100
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ken a. roberts issues
Something along the lines of:

<xsl:when test="../../preceding-sibling::thead = 'value'">

should do the trick, although "../../../thead" would probably work as well

Richard

On 27/10/05, Roberts, Kenneth W. <KENNETH.W.ROBERTS@s...> wrote:
>
>
> Here is the "tree" I am trying to traverse:
>
> <thead>
>     <row>
>         <entry></entry>
>     </row>
> </thead>
> <tbody>
>     <row>
>         <entry>
>
> My context node is tbody/row/entry and I want to test for a value in
> thead/row/entry but I can't figure the path.
>
> example:  <xsl:when test="start-with(????,'value')">
>
> What path can replace ???? and get me to the header row entry?
>
> Appreciate any help.
>
> Ken Roberts
> San Antonio, TX
>
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