Re: Testing for value of a preceding "cousin"

You need to use the ancestor axis to look up the tree, rather than
searching from the root down, which will always return true, as long
as there's a journal title somewhere in the document.  Also, it may
have just been a typo in your example, but you were missing the "@"
before "level".

<xsl:when test="ancestor::monogr[1]/title[@level='j']">...</xsl:when>

-Brandon :)


On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 12:55 AM, Charles Muller
<cmuller-lst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> When applying styles to the <date> element within in a TEI <biblStruct>
> ancestor, such as the following
>
> <biblStruct xml:id="Chen-1964"><monogr><author>Chben,
Kenneth</author><title
> level="m">Buddhism in China: A Historical
> Survey</title><imprint><pubPlace>Princeton</pubPlace><publisher>Princeton
> University
> Press</publisher><date>1964</date></imprint></monogr></biblStruct>
>
> I have, for several years, been using the following simple XSLT,
>
> <xsl:template match="date">
> <xsl:if test="(parent::p)">
> <xsl:apply-templates/>
> </xsl:if>
> <xsl:apply-templates/>.
> </xsl:template>
>
> Thus, in the case of the above, the output would simply be the date,
> followed by a period.
>
> In the present manuscript that I am working on, the publisher asks that
> journal dates be placed in parentheses.
>
> Thus, for example, in the following entry
>
> <biblStruct xml:id="Chien-1988"><analytic><author>Chbien, Edward
> T.</author><title level="a">The Neo-Confucian Confrontation with Buddhism:
A
> Structural and Historical Analysis</title></analytic><monogr><title
> level="j">Journal of Chinese Philosophy</title><imprint><biblScope
> type="vol">15</biblScope><date>1988</date><biblScope
> type="pp">347b348</biblScope></imprint> </monogr></biblStruct>
>
> ...since we have <title level="j"> (indicating a journal), I would like the
> output to be (1988). I know how to test for attribute values in the case of
> a preceding node, or a sibling, or parent, or ancestor. But in this case,
> the <title level="j"> element is none of these, although it has the same
> ancestor. I attempted to deal with this by testing for the existence of a
> <title level="j"> under the same ancestor of <monogr>
>
> <xsl:template match="date">
> <xsl:choose>
> <xsl:when test="(parent::p)">
> <xsl:apply-templates/>
> </xsl:when>
> <xsl:when test="//monogr/title[level='j']">
> (<xsl:apply-templates/>)
> </xsl:when>
> <xsl:otherwise>
> <xsl:apply-templates/>.
> </xsl:otherwise>
> </xsl:choose>
> </xsl:template>
>
>
> But so far no luck. I was going to try the route of creating a variable
when
> level="j" exists, but I thought that I should ask here to see if there is a
> way of doing it with standard axes methods.
>
> Chuck
>
>
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