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Subject: Getting value of specific element in external XML document
From: "Ragulf Pickaxe" <jawxml@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 22:38:37 +0000
getting value from xml
Hi all,

I have the following problem:

During a transformation, I want different Colours on some elemets according to their position in the hierachy. Instead of a choose-when, I have tried following:

<!-- Top of XSL document -->
<xsl:variable name="Colours" select="document('Colours.xml')/colours/colour"/>


<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:copy-of select="$Colours"/> <!-- Gives back the whole -->
<xsl:value-of select="$Colours[2]"/> <!-- Gives back the value of the second colour element -->
<xsl:apply-templates select="node"/>
</xsl:template>


<xsl:template match="node">
<xsl:value-of select="$Colours[count(ancestor-or-self::node)]"/> <!-- Gives nothing at all -->
<xsl:apply-template select="node"/>
</xsl:template>


In the template node, I have tried various things in the predicate, such as [position()=count(ansestor-or-self::node)] and the like, but nothing seems to work, except when I hardcode the value, which I obviously do not want.

What am I doing wrong here? I have absolutely no idea why this is not working.

The Colours.xml looks like the following:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<colours>
 <colour>red</colour>
 <colour>green</colour>
 <colour>bluez</colour>
</colours>

Regards,
Ragulf Pickaxe :-|

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