On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 00:20:02 -0700, ML <ML@d...>
wrote:

>The other way around:

I keep seeing this, but I haven't yet "got" it.   I'm an old
procedural programmer who has some old tricks to unlearn.

>  <xsl:for-each select='key'>
>    <xsl:variable name="MyName">
>      <xsl:if test='. = "Name"'>
>        <xsl:value-of select='../string[position() = 1]'/>
>      </xsl:if>
>    </xsl:variable>
>  </xsl:for-each>

But I thought I would try it without understanding it, using the
following snippet.   (I'm also trying to get a sequence # without
luck)   (After I get it working, I will try to use templates the way I
use CoBOL paragraphs - sort of, something is obviously different)

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform'
version='1.0'>
      <xsl:variable name="Sequence"> select='"1"'></xsl:variable>    
      <xsl:variable name="MyName"    select='"1Two"'></xsl:variable> 
...
<xsl:template match='dict'>
  <xsl:for-each select='key'>	     					
     <xsl:variable name="MyName">
     	<xsl:if test='. = "Name"'>
             <xsl:value-of select='following-sibling::*[1]'/>
</xsl:if>     					
     </xsl:variable>                                 
   </xsl:for-each>	
					
<xsl:variable name="MySequence"> select='$Sequence +1'></xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="Sequence"> select='$MySequence'   ></xsl:variable>
        &#160;MySequence: <xsl:value-of select="$MySequence" /> 
        &#160;MyName(outside): <xsl:value-of select="$MyName" /> <br/>

The web page shows a thousand of the following lines:

 MySequence: select='$Sequence +1'>  MyName(outside): 1Two
 MySequence: select='$Sequence +1'>  MyName(outside): 1Two
 MySequence: select='$Sequence +1'>  MyName(outside): 1Two