"tshad" <tshad@d...> wrote in message
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> If I have the following xml:
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <addresses>
>     <address country="Italy">
>         <tag name="street" flag="5">One Microsoft Way</tag>
>         <tag name="number">1</tag>
>         <tag name="city">Redmond</tag>
>         <tag name="state" unit="25">WA</tag>
>         <tag name="zip">98052</tag>
>     </address>
>     <address country="France">
>          <section type="Condo" Comp="1">
>               <tag name="street">15 Mako Place</tag>
>               <tag name="number">1545</tag>
>               <tag name="city">Fargo</tag>
>               <tag name="state" unit="10">Paris</tag>
>               <tag name="zip">10110</tag>
>          </section>
>     </address>
> </addresses>
>
> Where one section is addresses/address/tag and another is
> addresses/address/section/tag, I want to be able to get the country from
the
> address.
>
> Nomrally I would just do
>
> <xsl:value-of select="ancestor::address/@country"/>
>
> But if I have a "section", I would need to go up 2 levels.
>
> My current xsl is:
>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>                  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
>    <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
>    <xsl:template match="addresses">
>         <dataset>
>              <xsl:apply-templates/>
>         </dataset>
>    </xsl:template>
>  <xsl:template match="tag|section/tag">
>      <address>
>           <sectionNumber>
>                 <xsl:value-of select="ancestor::section/@Comp"/>
>            </sectionNumber>
>            <name>
>                   <xsl:value-of select="@name"/>
>            </name>
>            <flag>
>                 <xsl:if test="not(@flag)">
>                       <xsl:attribute name="xsi:nil">true</xsl:attribute>
>                 </xsl:if>
>                 <xsl:value-of select="@flag"/>
>            </flag>
>           <unit>
>                 <xsl:if test="not(@unit)">
>                        <xsl:attribute name="xsi:nil">true</xsl:attribute>
>                 </xsl:if>
>                 <xsl:value-of select="@unit"/>
>           </unit>
>          <value>
>               <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>          </value>
>      </address>
>  </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> I would like to add a section:
>
>           <country>
>                 <xsl:value-of select="ancestor::address/@country"/>
>            </country>
>
> but this won't work for both cases.
>


Why not?

I think you are confusing ancestor:: with parent:: .  The current tag node
whether it be a child of section or address will have an ancestor of
address.

-- 
Anthony Jones - MVP ASP/ASP.NET