tshad wrote:

> ancestor::form/@name gives me 1007, as it should.  But I need to look at all 
> the forms on the same level and get the one that has @primary = 'true' and 
> use the @name of that form.
> 
> Is this the wrong way to get that?
> 
> Seems pretty straight forward.
> 
> I assume the pattern in:
> 
> <xsl:value-of select="ancestor::form[@primary='true']/@name"/>
> 
> says to look for all the ancestor "form" tags and look at the one that one. 
> I did notice that I had primary set in my program without the "@".  But even 
> after changing it to the above is not working.

The sample XML you posted looks like this:

<Report>
   <appraisal>
     <data>
       <form name="1007" primary="false">
         <section type="subject" number="0">
           <tag name="GR_AGE.1" flags="1" format="4096">4 Yrs.</tag>
         </section>
       </form>
       <form name="reffee" primary="false">
           <tag name="FFHD_NFIP_COMMUNITY_NUMBER.1" flags="0"
format="0">040040</tag>
       </form>
       <form name="1004_05" primary="true">
         <section type="subject" number="0">
           <tag name="PROP_PHYS_DEFICIENCIES_DESC.1" flags="4"
format="4096">None apparent </tag>
         </section>
       </form>
     </data>
   </appraisal>
</Report>

In that sample each 'tag' element has just one ancestor element of the 
name 'form'. However each such 'form' element has siblings so perhaps 
you want
  <xsl:value-of select="(
   ancestor::form[@primary = 'true'] |
   ancestor::form/preceding-sibling::form[@primary = 'true'] |
   ancestor::form/following-sibling::form[@primary = 'true']
   )[1]/@name"/>
which looks at the sibling 'form' elements as well.

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