Re: Getting value of specific element in external XML

Cheers,
Wendell

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.

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