"Anthony Jones" <Ant@y...> wrote in message 
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> "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.
>
You're right, I was.

Thanks,

Tom
> -- 
> Anthony Jones - MVP ASP/ASP.NET
>
>