Re: Attribute values and Ancestors

Try "{../attribute(id)}".

Dan Walker wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm rather new to XSL, but have a quick question.  When I am in a nested
> <xsl:for-each ...> block, I can get the value of an inner attribute by
> doing:
> 
>         {attribute(id)}
> 
> But, how do I get the value of an outer attribute?
> 
> In the following example, I am trying to build an HTML input field.  I want
> to assign the value of the id attribute that belongs to <question> to the
> name parameter of the input field (see ??? below).  All I have been able to
> figure out is how to get the value of the id attribute belonging to
> <choice>:
> 
> <xsl:for-each select="document/question">
>         <FONT face="Arial"><xsl:process select="description"/></FONT>
>         <P></P>
>         <xsl:for-each select="choice">
>                 <TABLE><TR><TD>
>                 <input type="Radio" name="???"  value="{attribute(id)}"></input>
>                 </TD><TD>
>                         <xsl:process-children/>
>                 </TD>
>                 </TR>
>                 </TABLE>
>         </xsl:for-each>
>         <P></P>
> </xsl:for-each>



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