RE: how to get info from nodes surrounding current nod

Thanks Jim. Between your response and Michael Kay's I
managed to make it work. What you suggested was a
pretty elegant solution, I just need to make sure that
TABLE is addressed using ../../TABLE because my
context node is 2 levels down from TABLE. (Kay's
suggestion)

One question: the var turned out to be needed. If I
use ITEM[@id=@col_id]/@name I get the same name, i.e.,
I get (col1, col1) instead of (col1, col2) as if
@col_id gave me the same number every time the
template matches. Why?

J.L.

--- James Fuller <james.fuller@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
> > My XSL is something like:
> > 
> > 
> > <xsl:template-match select="IDX">
> > CREATE UNIQUE INDEX <xsl:value-of select="@NAME"/>
> on
> > <xsl:value-of select="TABLE[@name]"/>
> > (<xsl:apply-templates select="D_ID"/>
> > </xsl:template>
> > 
> 
>  <xsl:template-match select="D_ID">
> 	<xsl:variable name="mysearchstring"
> select="@col_id"/>
> 	<xsl:value-of
> select="TABLE/ITEM[@id=$mysearchstring]/@name"/>
>  </xsl:template>
> 
> u dont need the var but I added just to illustrate
> the technique
> 
> gl, jim fuller
> 
> 
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