Re: node responding to ancestor node attributes

<xsl:variable name="thisLanguage" select="page[@language]"/>

Then reference the variable with "$thisLanguage". Also, define the
variable immediately after your <stylesheet> tag to make it global.

_ryan

On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Michael wrote:

> In my root node I specifiy the language I'd like output to be in. I tried
> matching a template of page[@language = 'es']//content//element[@type =
> '1'] but that didn't seem to work. Is there a proper way to check that
> sort of data? Is it possible to take that value and set it to a global
> variable any node can easily check? Thanks.


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