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Hi Sean, > Specifically, is there a more general way (than specifying > test="../@attr", test="../../@attr") to select the first ancestor > travelling back up the tree that defines a specific attribute? Sure: select all the ancestor elements: ancestor::* filter them to select only those with style attributes: ancestor::*[@style] and then pick the first of those that you find: ancestor::*[@style][1] (You can use [1] to select the nearest to the element you're on -- the last in document order -- because the ancestor axis is a "reverse" axis.) In your stylesheet, you could just do: <xsl:template match="page"> <page> <xsl:copy-of select="@* | ancestor::*[@style][1]/@style"/> <xsl:apply-templates/> </page> </xsl:template> Cheers, Jeni --- Jeni Tennison http://www.jenitennison.com/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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