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Subject: top ancestor value
From: Joelle Tegwen <tegwe002@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 16:36:58 -0500

I've been searching on this and I can't find an example that helps. I find the generic examples but I don't get something that does what I want.

My data is structured so that only the top level of the tree has the folder for the url. but I want to include that folder in the url for all of the files (including itself). Based on stuff I've read I thought that would be "ancestor-or-self::section[last()]/folder," but that gives me nothing. (full xsl below)

I tried using youth:ancestor-or-self::section[last()]/folder, but that gives me a validation error. The data is here: http://rafb.net/paste/results/dyNo4Q36.html for reference

Am I completely misunderstanding ancestor? And in general, how does one debug this kind of thing?

Thanks again
Joelle

I've got this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>


<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:youth="http://www.youthhood.org"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:template match="/"> <html> <body> <h2>My Sitemap</h2> <ul> <xsl:for-each select="youth:sitemap//youth:section"> <li><xsl:value-of select="youth:id" />: <a> <xsl:attribute name="href"> <xsl:value-of select="concat('../', ancestor-or-self::section[last()]/folder,'/', youth:url)"/> </xsl:attribute> <xsl:value-of select="youth:title" /></a></li> </xsl:for-each> </ul> </body> </html> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>

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