Re: parent attribute? aaargh

"Mattias Konradsson" <preacher@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 
> 	<xsl:value-of select="ancestor(submenu@id)" />
> 
> Should work right? I've also tried a number of other patterns to no avail,

try <xsl:value-of select="ancestor(submenu[@id])/@id" />.

Read this as "get the value of the id attribute from the first
ancestor of type submenu which has an id attribute".

ht
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