At 2009-07-01 13:42 -0400, dan haig wrote:
>Hi, sorry if this has been answered a hundred times but I haven't had
>much luck finding this in the archives.
>
>For this xml:
>
><xtf:snippets>

That isn't XML because it isn't well-formed due to the absence of the 
namespace declaration for "xtf".

>... I want to write an xpath that will select  just the numeric value
>of 5 for the attribute hitNum, based on its being a sibling attribute
>of rank="1". However, I can't get any closer than selecting the whole
>xtf:snippet element. This are a couple ways of accessing that
>inadequate result:
>
>/xtf:snippets/xtf:snippet[@rank='1']/attribute::hitNum
>
>/xtf:snippets/xtf:snippet[@rank='1']/@hitNum

Works for me!  I wouldn't change a thing.

. . . . . . . . . Ken

T:\ftemp>type dan.xml
<xtf:snippets xmlns:xtf="urn:x-Dan">
    <xtf:snippet score="100" rank="1" hitNum="5">
        MS Clark Library, University of
        <xtf:hit>
            <xtf:term>California</xtf:term>
        </xtf:hit>. 40 Albion Street Broadstairs |
    </xtf:snippet>
</xtf:snippets>

T:\ftemp>xslt dan.xml dan.xsl
5
T:\ftemp>type dan.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                 xmlns:xtf="urn:x-Dan"
                 version="1.0">

<xsl:output method="text"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
   <xsl:value-of select="/xtf:snippets/xtf:snippet[@rank='1']/@hitNum"/>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>
T:\ftemp>



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