Re: Matching attribute with condition in predicate

2009/12/22 G. Ken Holman <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> Because the "/" at the start of "/root/@condition" is the top of the
> _current tree_, not the top of the initial tree. B Thus it is at the top

> the tree with the attribute because it is in the predicate tested when

> attribute is the current node.
>
> You want a global variable something like:
> B <xsl:variable name="orig" select="/"/>
>
> ... and then in your predicate
@attr[$orig/root/@condition='ru'] in order to
> switch to the original tree from your temporary tree.

Thanks for quick reply.
Now I see why it's not working, but I can't use variables in
template/@match, can I ?

Forgive me, you can in XSLT 2.0 and I failed to
notice you were running XSLT 1.0 (which I
*should* have since you were using exslt!).

So I can't figure out how to get original tree there, and it seems
that I have to use choose/when/otherwise.

Since you are in charge of the temporary tree,
can you just throw that original tree attribute
as an attribute of the top of your temporary tree
so that you can look at it at any time using
"/*/@condition" (which doesn't care about the
name of the document element of the current tree)?

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