"Martin Honnen" <mahotrash@y...> wrote in message 
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> tshad wrote:
>> That did it, but now I need to use that number to get a field from a 
>> previous set of nodes, but the select is not working.
>>
>> If I make the following changes the XML looks like:
>>
>>     <FORM>
>>         <FIELDS>
>>             <TITLE1>This is Title1</TITLE1>
>>             <TITLE2>This is Title2</TITLE2>
>>             <TITLE3>This is Title3</TITLE3>
>>         </FIELDS>
>>         <FORMPHOTOS>
>>             <PHOTO NUM="1">
>>                 <FILENAME>09May001.jpg</FILENAME>
>>                 <FILETYPE>JPEG</FILETYPE>
>>             </PHOTO>
>>             <PHOTO NUM="2">
>>                 <FILENAME>09005.jpg</FILENAME>
>>                 <FILETYPE>JPEG</FILETYPE>
>>             </PHOTO>
>>             <PHOTO NUM="3">
>>                 <FILENAME>09002.jpg</FILENAME>
>>                 <FILETYPE>JPEG</FILETYPE>
>>             </PHOTO>
>>         </FORMPHOTOS>
>>     </FORM>
>>
>> I am doing:
>>
>>  <xsl:template match="FORMPHOTOS/PHOTO">
>>   <xsl:choose>
>>    <xsl:when test=". != ''">
>>     <attachment>
>>      <source>
>>       <xsl:value-of select="../../FIELDS/*[name() = 
>> concat('TITLE',@NUM)]"/>
>
> Inside of the square brackets the context node is no longer the PHOTO 
> element but rather that * child element. So you either need to store the 
> attribute value in a variable and use that variable e.g.
>    <source>
>      <xsl:variable name="n" select="@NUM"/>
>      <xsl:value-of select="../../FIELDS/*[name() = concat('TITLE',$n)]"/>
>
> or you can use the current() function e.g.
>    <source>
>      <xsl:value-of select="../../FIELDS/*[name() = 
> concat('TITLE',current()/@NUM)]"/>
> as that refers to the node currently processed by an xsl:for-each or 
> xsl:apply-templates.
>
Worked perfectly.

When you say current node, are you talking about everything inside the PHOTO 
tags?

Or FORMPHOTOS as well.  In otherword, if I change the FORMPHOTOS element to:

<FORMPHOTOS LABEL="HOUSE">

Could I have also accessed the LABEL as:

   <source>
     <xsl:value-of select="@HOUSE"/>

When you say that "Inside of the square brackets the context node is no 
longer the PHOTO element but rather that * child element", what is the * 
child element refering to?

Thanks,

Tom
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