Re: Getting variable yet most immediate parentNode

Its getting prickly =)

Let's assume I want to go one further and say that "@value" has
precedent over "@name" which has precedent over ".". Would adding
@value to the end of that give it first priority?

-S

On 9/28/07, Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 11:56 AM 9/28/2007, Steve wrote:
> ><!-- Doesn't work. Ignores all @name -->
> ><xsl:value-of select="(@name|.)[1]" />
>
> This won't work since the current node will always precede any @name
> attribute in document order. Try select="(.|@name)[last()]" (which
> adds the value of the @name attribute, if there is one, in preference
> to the value of the node) or the more explicit (but slightly different)
>
> <xsl:value-of select="."/>
> <xsl:if test="not(normalize-space())">
>    <xsl:value-of select="@name"/>
> </xsl:if>
>
> ... which adds the value of a @name attribute if the current node has no value.
>
> Cheers,
> Wendell
>
>
>
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