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I want to get the value of a certain sibling of the current element, but only if the current element's parent is of a certain type. In other words, suppose I'm creating the template for B elements. My input XML may look like (these are just fragments): <A> <B/> <C>...</C> </A> <Z> <B> <C>...</C> </Z> In the first case, I want to pick up the value of C and put it into my output stream (because the parent element is A); in the second case I do not (because the parent element is Z, not A). Note that the following is also legal input: <Y> <A> <B/> <C>...</C> </A> <A> <B/> <C>...</C> </A> </Y> Note that this means that I cannot just refer to "../../A/C" in the B template, because I could end up getting the value from the wrong C element. I am currently using "ancestor::*[1][name()='A']/C" Of course my names aren't 'A' and 'C'; in fact they're *VERY* long, so this quickly gets unwieldy. This sure seems clumsy. For the elegant, intuitive, language that XSLT is supposed to be, surely there's a simpler way to do this? I've tried using '..' and '/' until I'm blue in the face, and gotten nowhere. Any help will be appreciated. Topher Eliot Sr. Software Engineer J.D. Edwards Christopher_Eliot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 303 334-2493 XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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