RE: Complicated Variable/Xpath question

Try 

<xsl:key name="r" match="interlink" use="linksource/@href"/> 

<xsl:template match="anchor">
  <xref pointer="key('r', @id)/linktarget/@href"/>
</xsl:template>

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Borsz [mailto:andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 15 August 2005 19:05
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Complicated Variable/Xpath question
> 
> Hello List,
> I'm having trouble getting value I want into my result. I feel one or 
> more variables and Xpath expressions will do the trick but I 
> can't seem 
> to get it quite right. I'm using XSLT 1.0 and Libxslt.
> 
> I have interlink elements like this:
> 
> <interlink linktype="seeAlso">
> <linksource href="example-1"></linksource>
> <linktarget href="what-I-need"></linktarget>
> </interlink>
> 
> These interlink groups occur all throughout the document, in various 
> locations. They could be anywhere, and the href's almost all have 
> different values. Then I have these anchors throughout my 
> document too:
> 
> <anchor id="example-1">
> </anchor>
> 
> Again, these anchor href's are almost always different as 
> well. When I 
> process anchor, I need to create an element 'xref' with an attribute 
> 'pointer' whose value is the value of the 'href' attribute of the 
> 'linktarget' element which is the following-sibling of the 
> 'linksource' 
> element whose 'href' attribute has the same value as the 'href' 
> attribute of my current 'anchor'. So for in this particular example, 
> I'd like to turn this:
> 
> <anchor id="example-1">
> </anchor>
> 
> Into this:
> <xref pointer="what-I-need">
> </xref>
> 
> Everything I've tried gives me <xref pointer=""></xref>. Any 
> help would 
> be greatly appreciated.
> 
> 
> -Andrew