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> I have something like this: > > <xsl:variable name="a" select="document('a.xml')/TopNode"/> > ... > > <xsl:template match="elementX"> > <xsl:for-each select="$a"> > <xsl:value-of select="./@AnAttribute[../@DifferentAttribute= > <<here I want > to refer to an attribute from an elementX>>]"/> > > My problem is that normally the for-each would be iterating > over a node > inside the current document, so to get up out of the loop to > the current > match would involve moving up the document structure. > In this case, where the loop is iterating over nodes from a different > document held in a variable, the matched node seems to be > inaccessible. How > can I get at my elementX? Assign it to a variable before going into the <xsl:for-each> <xsl:variable name="elementX" select="."/> Mike Kay > > Hypothetically, this situation could be even further nested. > Would it be > useful if you could navigate up and down the nested levels to > get at the > current node of each? This would be a new axis, with less to do with > document structure than the logical structure of the stylesheet. > An early draft of XSLT had something like this, partially preserved in the context() function of WD-xsl. I think that peeking down the stack is intrinsically error-prone, and that using explicit variables is far safer. Mike Kay XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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