Hi John,
hello, having some trouble making this work: within my stylesheet, i
have selected a node somewhere in the midst of the document tree,
several nested elements deep. what i would like to do is, given this
node N (at arbitrary depth), walk *back* up the document tree
hierarchy, element by element, printing the successive parent
elements (technically, printing each element's "name" @ribute).
The easiest way to do this is to collect the ancestor elements using
the ancestor attribute and iterate over them sorted in reverse
document order:
<xsl:for-each select="ancestor::*">
<xsl:sort select="position()" order="descending"
data-type="number" />
<xsl:value-of select="@name" />
<xsl:if test="position() != last()">, </xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
[Note that I've done what you said (use the 'name' attribute) rather
than what you showed in your examples (which used the name of the
element).]
But you can do it using recursion instead if you want:
<xsl:template match="*" mode="name">
<xsl:if test="parent::*">
<xsl:apply-templates select="parent::*" mode="name" />
<xsl:text>, </xsl:text>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:value-of select="@name" />
</xsl:template>
Cheers,
Jeni
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