RE: xpath question

As with most of these - an alternative is to use a key:

<xsl:key name="groupKey" match="group/*" use="local-name()" />

<xsl:template match="column">
	<xsl:for-each select="key('groupKey', @name)">
		<!-- Do whatever -->
      </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

Bryan

-----Original Message-----
From: Stuart Brown [mailto:sbrown@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 27 March 2003 17:11
To: 'xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: RE:  xpath question


HI Florian,

You can use the local-name() function to solve this problem. It returns the
(unqualified) name of the context element. In these circumstances you would
usually select with a wildcard, and then use local-name() in a predicate to
filter it down. Something like:

<xsl:template match="column">
 <xsl:for-each select="/root/group/*[local-name()=current()/@name]">
  <!-- Do whatever -->
 </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

The above selects the actual fruity element. If you want the <group> change
the xpath in the for-each to "/root/group[*[local-name()=current()/@name]]".

Cheers,

Stuart

> -----Original Message-----
> From: florian [mailto:csshsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 27 March 2003 17:08
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  xpath question
> 
> 
> 
> hi!
> 
> i have a document xml doc like this:
> 
> <root>
>   <group>
>      <apple>bla</apple>
>      <orange>bla</orange>
>   </group>
>   <group>
>      <apple>bla</apple>
>      <orange>bla</orange>
>   </group>
> 
>   <order>
>     <column name="orange" />
>     <column name="apple" />
>   </order>
> </root>
> 
> i would like to do the following: im going though all the column nodes
> and would like to access the group nodes where the column 
> attribute name
> and the group node name match up.
> 
> basically i can just not think of a way to do that in xpath.. anybody
> got an tip? how can i say in xpath that it should get the node with
> the name in @name and not just access the name attribute of a group
> node..
> 
> thanks alot!
> 
> ciao!
> florian
> 
> 
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