Recursion (I think)

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Subject: Recursion (I think)
From: Nicholas Orr <nick@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 09:04:13 +1000

I'm very new to XSL and learning by doing, so thanks in advance for responding. I've got some xml which has come out of a filemaker database where you can have a layoutobject that contains either field objects or other layoutobjects in a recursive style list :

<FMPReport link="Summary.xml" type="Report" creationDate="25/09/2005" creationTime="9:28:42 PM"> <File name="DDR Sample.fp7" path="/Volumes/BIGHD/Projects/DDR"> <LayoutCatalog> <Layout id="2" name="Layout #2" includeInMenu="True"> <Object type="GroupButton" flags="0" portal="-1" rotation="0"> <GroupButtonObj numOfObjs="14"> <Object type="GroupButton" flags="0" portal="-1" rotation="0"> <GroupButtonObj numOfObjs="6"> <Object type="Field" flags="0" portal="-1" rotation="0"> </Object> </GroupButtonObj> </Object> </GroupButtonObj> </Object> <Object type="GroupButton" flags="0" portal="-1" rotation="0"> <GroupButtonObj numOfObjs="6"> <Object type="Field" flags="0" portal="-1" rotation="0"> </Object> </GroupButtonObj> </Object> <Object type="Field" flags="0" portal="-1" rotation="0"> </Object> </Layout> </LayoutCatalog> </File> </FMPReport>

I'm trying to run a for-each loop on all of the field objects that does :

<xsl:value-of select="./@type"/>

and I can do this fine for any field object at the lowest point in the tree by referring to it explicity:

/FMPReport/File/LayoutCatalog/Layout/Object[@type='Field']

which means I can also then reference the parent "Layout" node using :

<xsl:value-of select="../../@id"/>

the problem I have is how do I reference every possible Object [@type='Field'] in the tree and still be able to reference the parent Layout node?

Thanks,
Nick

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